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The Red Wolf

The Red Wolf: North Carolina. The Red wolf (Canis Lupus Rufus) roamed South Eastern America and said to be a survivor of the Late Pleistocene epoch. Its ranges stretched from Texas to Florida and Northward to New York. It was officially declared extinct by 1980. In 1987 the Red Wolf was reintroduced in North Carolina, ...the first predator ever to be reintroduced after it was officially extinct. Some feel that the modern Red Wolf is no Red wolf at all but a Red Wolf Coyote hybrid and that it has no right to be there. Others feel a Red Wolf hybrid is better than no Red Wolf at all....

Interesting facts on The Red Wolf; Red wolves range from 45 to 80 pounds. Their coat usually has rich
chestnut or reddish tones on the head, back, and legs. Some may even be all black, especially those found in the bottomland forests of the Southeast. Unlike gray and timber wolves which hunt large prey in packs,
the red wolves are generally more solitary hunters, living off small prey. Red wolves are capable of taking down deer but more readily hunt raccoons, opossums, muskrats, rabbits, and ground dwelling birds. When
taking down larger prey, red wolves will team up and hunt in groups. Hunting in groups enables the predator to take down animals much larger than itself and beyond the ability of a single individual; "A wolf's
greatest weapon against prey is its cooperative behavior" (Weidensaul 1994). Red wolves pair with life long mates and reach breeding maturity, in the wild, at two to three years of age. They breed in February or March and two months later give birth to 2 to 6 pups. Packs usually consist of an adult breeding pair, young of the year, and young of the previous year

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