Red Wolf
by Mary Lynn Giacomini
Title
Red Wolf
Artist
Mary Lynn Giacomini
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Photography by Mary Lynn Giacomini
Photographed in Illinois
Topaz Studio & Impression used on background for artistic enhancement
The red wolf has gray or black fur mixed with red, especially on its legs and sides. It has a long snout and a long, black-tipped tail. It is larger than a coyote and smaller than a gray wolf. The red wolf weighs between 45-80 pounds and stands about two feet tall from shoulders to feet. It is about four feet long from nose to the tip of its tail.
The shy, nocturnal red wolf once ranged from Texas to Pennsylvania and south to Florida, bit is now a critically endangered species. Considered a threat to livestock and sport hunting, red wolves were hunted heavily until the 1960’s. By then, habitat loss, hybridization with coyotes, and hunting left their populations decimated. By 1980, the US Fish and Wildlife Service had trapped the remaining wild wolves and began a captive breeding program with the help of zoos, which has increased a population of 17 genetically pure red wolves to over 200. However, reintroduction into the wild has been limited. Three national wildlife refuges in North Carolina are home to the only wild population of red wolves.
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October 22nd, 2019
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