The Wolf is assumed to have formerly occurred widely in mountains and deserts within the UAE. It was reportedly present on Jebel Hafeet (Thesiger 1949) but became extinct there in the 1970s (Duckworth 1996). Two wolf cubs were caught near Habab on the Dubai-Hatta road around 1978 and one survived in captivity until 1987; in 1984, one was shot in Al Ain Zoo while scavenging with feral dogs (Gross 1987). In 1994, a wolf that had been shot was photographed hanging from a tree near Ayeem, north of Masafi (Hellyer 1994). In December 1986, wolf tracks were found 40 km inland of Jebel Ali and a sighting was reported in a wadi near Masfut in May 1987 (Gross 1987). In November 1996, residents of Wadi Jabsah, Fujairah (a lower tributary of Wadi Ham) kept a portable radio playing in the wadi, above the area of habitation, which they said was to keep wolves away (G. Feulner pers. comm. 2018). Residents of Wadi Safad in Fujairah reported seeing and hearing wolves at night (Aspinall et al. 2005). There have been unconfirmed reports of sightings in the Sweihan area and elsewhere north of Al Ain up to 2004 (Drew and Tourenq 2005). There are no confirmed recent records. Hornby (1996) considered the Wolf to be Regionally Extinct in the UAE. Speaking to the <a href=""https://www.khaleejtimes.com/article/20140110/ARTICLE/301109918/1002"">Khaleej Times</a>, R. Khan said The last living Arabian Wolf that was collected from Dubai desert in the mid-1970s was a rickety female, which eventually died at the Dubai Zoo on March 11, 1993. The map shows the presumed former distribution across the UAE. Natural recolonisation of UAE is highly unlikely due to the fencing of international borders and the rarity of the species in adjoining countries. The global range of the Grey Wolf extends across most of the Holarctic, including the Middle East. The present distribution is more restricted due to extirpations of local populations in parts of Western Europe and the USA (Mech and Boitani 2010, Boitani et al. 2018). It is rare in the Arabian Peninsula due mainly to ongoing persecution (Mallon and Budd 2011).