Something that @Urufu1997 said reminded me of this:
Which goes to show a few other animals that must need some name revisions. On the top of my head:
Here, it's clear that the timber wolf was originally going to be a North American subspecies. Also, the only decorations for the timber wolf are in the New World theme, which again is North American. A last minute name change made it into the species gray wolf, which would've been ok, but then they added a SPECIFIC subspecies of gray wolf, the Arctic wolf. Why add the Arctic wolf when we technically already had it in-game? What's worse, why didn't they just call it the gray wolf? Wouldn't that have been better? Timber wolf is a North American term, if I remember correctly...That one's clearly a North American Subspecies though. You can see it in the Body Shape. Also Timberwolf is a Term that includes multiple North American Wolf Subspecies and it seems to be the Northwestern Wolf/Mackenzie Valley Wolf (Canis lupus occidentalis) (it's called that in a Scenario). A Shame that they chose the probably most colorful Subspecies but only gave us different grey and brown Variants. Also that white Face that the Wolves in the Game have seems to be rather uncommon. If they would at least get the Zoopedia right.
In my Opinion if we should get a third Wolf Subspecies it should be the European Wolf because we already have two from North America
Which goes to show a few other animals that must need some name revisions. On the top of my head:
- Colombian white-faced capuchin
monkey - Pronghorn
antelope - Mackenzie wolf -
timber wolf