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Red wolves were once distributed throughout the southeastern and south-central United States from the Atlantic Ocean to central Texas, southeastern Oklahoma and southwestern Illinois in the west, and in the north from the Ohio River Valley, northern Pennsylvania, southern New York, and extreme southern Ontario in Canada [2] south to the Gulf of Mexico. [14]
International Wolf Center, there are two “widely recognized species of wolves in the world, the red and the gray.” Pictured is the American grey wolf (Canis lupus lycaon). ©Jearu/Shutterstock.com
The red wolf is an enigmatic taxon, of which there are two proposals over its origin. One is that the red wolf is a distinct species (C. rufus) that has undergone human-influenced admixture with coyotes. The other is that it was never a distinct species but was derived from past admixture between coyotes and gray wolves, due to the gray wolf ...
The Texas wolf (Canis lupus monstrabilis) is an extinct subspecies of gray wolf, distinct from the Texas red wolf (Canis rufus), whose range once included southern and western Texas and northeastern Mexico.
Frye's move from Fort Worth, Texas, to Rhode Island is part of a cooperative effort by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and zoos across the country to rebuild the red wolf population and return ...
The endangered red wolf can survive in the wild, but only with “significant additional management intervention,” according to a long-awaited population viability analysis released Friday ...
A beautiful Red Wolf strolls by on his path at the Alligator River national Wildlife Refuge. Gregory's wolf (Canis rufus gregoryi), [3] [4] also known as the Mississippi Valley wolf, [2] was a hybrid canine subspecies of the red wolf. It was declared extinct in 1980. [5] It once roamed the regions in and around the lower Mississippi River basin ...
The eastern wolf (Canis lycaon [5] or Canis lupus lycaon [6] [7]), also known as the timber wolf, [8] Algonquin wolf and eastern timber wolf, [9] is a canine of debated taxonomy native to the Great Lakes region and southeastern Canada. It is considered to be either a unique subspecies of gray wolf or red wolf or a separate species from both. [10]