The home of 2 subspecies of gray wolf. These then clustered next closer with the coyote and away from the gray wolf. The eastern wolf's morphology is midway between that of the gray wolf and the coyote. It was later reclassified as a subspecies of gray wolf by Edward Goldman. The gray wolf ranked between these two. The study excluded the sequences of the divergent Himalayan wolf and the Indian gray wolf. Both these studies proposed reclassifying "Canis aureus lupaster" as a subspecies of the gray wolf. Nearly all dogs' genetic closeness to the gray wolf is due to admixture. Rare observations of Gray wolf, European lynx, and Brown bear do occur. Nearly all dog breeds' genetic closeness to the gray wolf is due to admixture. Nearly all dog breed's genetic closeness to the gray wolf is due to admixture. Canids vary in size from the gray wolf to the fennec fox. No gray wolf sequences were detected in the samples. The gray wolf population has been making a recovery in the Inland Northwest. By December 2011, Oregon's gray wolf population had grown to 24.