lobo

Everything else about the lobo is hearsay, slander, exaggeration, fabrication, aspiration, or plain old myth.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 9, 2015

Gray wolves — also known as Canis lupus, timber wolves, prairie wolves and lobo — are the largest of the 41 species of wild canids, including red wolves, foxes, coyotes and short-eared dogs.

From Washington Post

The werewolf calls are authentic lobo cries, but for the squeak of bats in the night, a technician rubs a cork on the side of a bottle.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the word lobo also signifies ‘to leak.’

From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

Besides coyotes, which are everywhere common, the plains were infested by lobo wolves, a very large and powerful species; they denned in the breaks of the plains and it was then easiest to destroy them.

From Ranching, Sport and Travel by Thomas Carson

As the wolf is to the wildcat—the lobos defeated Davidson’s felines in the second round—the tiger is to the wolf: bigger and beastlier.

From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2012

No. 13 Davidson Wildcats The wildcats toyed with cardinals in the first round, while the lobos stalked and slayed a band of 49ers.

From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2012

Hence, when Bernabe remarked, “You know, Carolina, I really wonder about Horsethief Shorty Wilson sometimes,” she would respond with: “Hay lobos con piel de oveja.”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

She heard the were-wolf scourge of herds, fierce lobos snarl in silent groves of timber and shivered at the coyote's piercing yelps from grave yards in the valleys.

From Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales by George (Henry George August) Hartmann

He had had enough of the Valley of the Eagles with its haunting lobos and its cunning human hunters.

From Alcatraz by Max Brand