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Red Wolves
Canis rufus

HABITS AND HABITATS
Not as much is known about the habits of the red wolf as is with many of the other wild canids. It is believed that they do not form large packs like gray wolves. Although they are capable of taking large prey such as deer, most of their food consists of smaller animals such as rabbits, raccoons, rodents, and birds. Red wolves seem to be most active at night. Preferred habitats of the red wolf include large amounts of upland and swamp forests with thick cover. Red wolves mate in eady spring, with the pups being born in late spring after a gestation period of 60 to 63 days. Dens may be enlarged burrows made by other animals, hollow trees, or other secluded sftes. Both the male and female wolves care for the pups which leave the parents the next year. Red wolves have been known to interbreed with coyotes producing hybrid young, a traft which has threatened this species' survival in the wild.

HISTORY
Like other wolf species, the red wolf has been persecuted by man because of our fear, hatred, and misconceptions of these large predators. Wolves of all kinds are often viewed as threats to domestic livestock and even to ourselves, though there has never been a documented case of a healthy wild wolf attacking a human being in North America. Like other predators, the red wolf maintains the strength of fts prey by primarily taking the sick, old, and weak animals. Originally there were three red wolf subspecies at the time of European settlement of this country. Since that time, two of these subspecies have been eliminated by man. Red wolves were shot, trapped, and poisoned and their habftat was cleared for use by man. The last remaining red wolves in the wild were compressed into parts of Louisiana and Texas. Red wolves were facing extinction when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decided to try and save the red wolf. During the late 1960's and mid 1970's, red wolves were trapped in an attempt to start a captive breeding program for later restocking into suftable habftats. By 1980, the red wolf was declared officially extinct in the wild. Because wild popula tions of red wolves had dropped so low, they had begun to interbreed wfth coyotes. After captive breeding and careful genetic testing of the approximately 400 trapped animals and their offspring, ft was determined that only 14 of them were still genetically pure red wolves. From these 14 animals, a captive breeding program began. In 1986, an experimental reintroduction of red wolves into the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in eastern North Carolina took place. Since then, red wolves have been released in several other locations including Mississippi, Florida, and Tennessee.


Taken from WildWNC.org.

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