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	Red Wolf Conservation
		As a result, many red wolves were mating with coyotes, which was threatening the genetic integrity of the remaining red wolf populations.
		Ultimately, only fourteen animals were used as breeding stock to begin the efforts to restore the red wolf to the wild, as some of the original 43 died of various diseases and others were suspected of being part coyote and were eliminated from the program.
		The red wolf recovery program is still rather controversial, as it is questionable as to whether or not the red wolf is a true species or a wolf/coyote hybrid.
	www.ualberta.ca /~jzgurski/redwolfconservation.html (1153 words)

	USFWS-Red Wolf Recovery Program
		The red wolf is one of two species of wolves in North America, the other being the gray wolf, Canis lupus.
		Intermediate in size to gray wolves and coyotes, the average adult red wolf weighs 45-80 pounds, stands about 26 inches at the shoulder and is about 4 feet long from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail.
		Red wolves are social animals that live in packs consisting of a breeding adult pair and their offspring of different years, typically five to eight animals.
	www.fws.gov /alligatorriver/redwolf.html (452 words)

	Red Wolf
		It is smaller than the gray wolf, larger than a coyote, and weighs 40 to 80 pounds.
		At present, the red wolf is extinct from the wild.
		Today the red wolf population is at 300 captive animals in zoos and captive breeding facilities.
	www.thewildones.org /Animals/redWolf.html (295 words)

	Red Wolf Canis rufus
		The red wolf was once found throughout the southeastern United States, from the Atlantic coast to central Texas and from the Gulf Coast to central Missouri and southern Illinois.
		The tiny red wolf populations that now exist in the wild are the result of animals that were bred in captivity and then reintroduced.
		The red wolf's coloration is similar to that of the coyote, but the tawny element is more pronounced, and the pelage is usually somewhat coarser.
	www.tunturisusi.com /redwolf (941 words)

	Red wolf - Canis rufus: More Information - ARKive
		Red wolves are smaller than their relative, the grey wolf (Canis lupus), and have longer legs and shorter fur (4).
		Red wolves formerly ranged throughout the southeastern USA, from the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, north to the Ohio River Valley and central Pennsylvania, and west to central Texas and southeastern Missouri.
		Red wolves were extensively trapped and shot, as they were believed to pose a direct threat to livestock and game (4).
	www.arkive.org /species/GES/mammals/Canis_rufus/more_info.html (805 words)

	NatureWorks - Red-tailed Hawk (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The red wolf weighs between 45-80 pounds and stands about two feet tall from shoulders to feet and is about four feet long from nose to the tip of its tail.
		The red wolf is mostly nocturnal, although it is sometimes active in the day during the winter months.
		The red wolf is a relatively social animals and it lives in packs that may include a breeding male and female and their pups.
	www.nhptv.org /natureworks/redwolf.htm (364 words)

	~Life Paths, Power Totem Red Wolf
		The Red Wolf is now considered to be extinct in the wild, having been slaughtered by humans and robbed of their natural resources by the encroaching spread of the two-leggeds.
		Red Wolf trusts that all that which she needs will be available to her, be it the prey she will eat to sustain her own life, or the shelter of the earth in which she makes her den.
		*Red Wolf** Totem walks with one who operates from an ~innocent~ heart, and thus, the individual blessed with this Totem is either born with an instinctual innocence, or they have come into this lifetime with one of their key lessons being that of maintaining, or re-kindling, innocence.
	wolfs_moon.tripod.com /redwolftotem.html (980 words)

	Animal Info - Red Wolf
		Red wolf cubs are born in dens, which can be located in the trunks of hollow trees, stream banks or sand knolls.
		The red wolf is a pack-living animal with a complex social organization, similar to that of the gray wolf.
		Reasons for the red wolf's decline included hunting, poisoning and trapping (because it was perceived as a threat to livestock, and possibly to people), habitat disruption, and competition and hybridization with the coyote.
	www.animalinfo.org /species/carnivor/canirufu.htm (1433 words)

	Conserving the Red Wolf
		The demise of the red wolf was due to many factors: manµs persecution of wild canids and the destruction of optimal habitat forced the few remaining red wolves into marginal habitat in Louisiana and Texas where they interbred with coyotes and suffered heavy parasite infestation.
		A number of factors caused the death of a few red wolves: ingestion of poison, a trapping accident and a handling accident each led to the death of a wolf, three wolves died of unknown causes, and four were shot by individuals who were not sympathetic to the plight of the species.
		Nowak, R.M. The red wolf is not a hybrid.
	www.canids.org /PUBLICAT/CNDNEWS3/consredw.htm (2948 words)

	All About Wolves - Red Wolf Fact Sheet
		The red wolf is twice as big as a coyote and about half the size of a gray wolf.
		Red wolves were eliminated in the southeastern United States by trapping, poisoning, shooting, and destruction of critical habitat.
		Because of the red wolves' poor physical condition, loss of habitat, and persecution by man, biologists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service came to the conclusion that the only way to save the red wolf was to take it out of the wild.
	teacher.scholastic.com /wolves/rabout2.htm (462 words)

	Red Wolf Printout- EnchantedLearning.com
		The Red Wolf is a fast-running, territorial carnivore (meat-eater).
		Red wolves were on the verge of extinction during the early 1900's, due to loss of habitat and hunting by farmers; these wolves may be starting to recover.
		Smaller than the closely-related gray wolf, the red wolf has long legs, long ears, a narrow head, and strong jaws with sharp teeth, including long canine teeth which tear flesh.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/mammals/dog/Redwolfprintout.shtml (301 words)

	Red Wolf
		The red wolf is similar to but smaller than the gray wolf and is intermediate in many characteristics between gray wolves and coyotes.
		It often interbreeds with the coyote, and because of this, it is believed that the red wolf may eventually become extinct by hybridization, rather than by man. It ranges in size from 15" to 16" shoulder height, 55-65" in length, and can weigh anywhere from 40 to 90 pounds.
		The red wolf's historic range covered the southeastern portion of the United States, reaching as far west as Texas and north to Illinois.
	www.cosmosmith.com /red_wolves.html (307 words)

	International Wolf Center Wolf Basics - FAQ
		Red wolf packs are generally smaller than gray wolf packs and usually have 2 to 8 members, but a pack of 12 is known in the wild.
		Red wolf territories can be from 10 to 100 square miles, but the territories of red wolves reintroduced into North Carolina have been 38 to 87 square miles.
		Red wolves in the wild have an average life span of 8 to 9 years, but have been known to live up to 12 years in the wild and 16 years in captivity.
	www.wolf.org /wolves/learn/basic/faq.asp (1367 words)

	International Wolf Center Wolf Basics - Red Wolf Timeline
		Disagreement over classification of red wolves continues as research by Barbara Lawrence and William Bossert of Harvard contends red wolves should be treated as a subspecies of the gray wolf.
		Last red wolves are captured in the wild and placed into captivity, thus marking the extinction of red wolves in the wild.
		They recapture and relocate all the remaining red wolves in GSMNP after 26 of the 37 wolves released since 1991 have died or had to be recaptured after straying onto private lands.
	www.wolf.org /wolves/learn/basic/history/red_timeline.asp (1737 words)

	Lioncrusher's Domain -- Red Wolf (Canis rufus) facts and pictures
		Red wolves have a social structure similar to gray wolves, which is unexpected, since coyotes and grey wolves that hunt mainly small game tend to be loners or live in very small family groups.
		Hybridization with coyotes, hookworm and trapping are all threats to the red wolf population.
		In 1980, the red wolf was declared extinct in the wild.
	www.lioncrusher.com /animal.asp?animal=27 (868 words)

	Red Wolf (Canis rufus)
		Formerly, red wolves ranged throughout the eastern half of Texas but their numbers and range quickly declined under pressure of intensive land use in the region.
		All of the recent, so-called red wolves we have examined from eastern Texas have proven to be large coyotes.
		The red wolf was apparently extinct in the wild by 1980.
	www.nsrl.ttu.edu /tmot1/canirufu.htm (661 words)

	Red Wolf in North Carolina
		The red wolf's coloration is similar to that of the coyote, but the tawny element is more pronounced, and the pelage is usually somewhat coarser.
		RANGE AND POPULATION LEVEL: The red wolf was once found throughout the southeastern United States, from the Atlantic coast to central Texas and from the Gulf Coast to central Missouri and southern Illinois.
		Between the period of 1900 to 1920, red wolves were extirpated from most of the eastern portion of their range.
	www.fws.gov /nc-es/mammal/redwolf.html (356 words)

	Wildlife Science Center: Red Wolves
		The red wolf pack is smaller than that of the gray wolf probably because they prey on much smaller animals.
		The Red Wolf Recovery Project is now pulling animals out of the wild in Tennessee because the park where they were released has proven to be inadequate.
		Recent genetic studies indicate that the eastern timber wolf and the red wolf may actually be one and the same, only subspecies of one another.
	www.wildlifesciencecenter.org /WolfRed.html (1117 words)

	Red Wolf
		The wild population of red wolves is currently composed of approximately 100 wolves comprising nearly 20 packs distributed across 1.7 million acres in five North Carolina counties.
		The Red Wolf Recovery Program is partnering with researchers from Trent University in Canada who are modeling survival and demographics of the North Carolina wild red wolf population.
		The Red Wolf Recovery Program continues to work closely with the Red Wolf Coalition, a citizen-support organization whose mission is to educate and promote community awareness for the red wolf.
	www.wolf.com /Info/Red_Wolf.html (1113 words)

	Saving America's Wildlife -- Defenders of Wildlife (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1980, the red wolf officially was declared extinct in the wild.
		A cinnamon-colored animal, the red wolf is a smaller and more slender cousin of the gray wolf.
		The red wolf actually is a shy, elusive animal that even more than the gray wolf seeks to avoid human contact.
	www.defenders.org /pubs/savewolf.html (443 words)

	The Wild Habitat - Red Wolf (Canis rufus) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		By 1980 the red wolf was considered extinct in the wild.
		White tailed deer and raccoon are the most important part of the red wolf's diet, although it does eat smaller mammels such as hare.
		Red wolves are supposed to have life long mates.
	library.thinkquest.org /11234/redwolf.html (235 words)

	Wolves Red Wolf
		Red wolves have been known to establish dens in hollow tree trunks, stream banks, abandoned dens of other animals, drain pipes, and culverts.
		The present red wolf population of at least 249 animals exists primarily in captivity.
		The disappearance of the last red wolves from the wild is attributed to two factors: habitat changes which favored expansion of the historic coyote range into red wolf territory, and the local breakdown of red wolf social structure (caused by extensive trapping, poisoning, and shooting).
	www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/wolves/redwolf.htm (1031 words)

	Red Wolf Facts
		In 1987 the Red Wolf was reintroduced first into the wilds of North Carolina and it is estimated that there are over 100 Red Wolves in the wild now.
		An adult red wolf weighs between 50-80 pounds and is about 4 feet long from the tip of its tail to its nose.
		They are called red wolves because of the reddish color of fur mostly behind their ears and along their legs and neck.
	www.eparks.org /wildlife_protection/wildlife_facts/redwolf.asp (354 words)

	NC Zoo™ - North Carolina Zoo : Red wolf
		Red wolves mate for life and form socially complex packs in which only the alpha, or most dominant pair breeds.
		The gray wolf is larger than the red wolf and occupies a different range.
		The red wolf is a medium-sized canid that typically weighs 50-60lbs.
	www.nczoo.org /animal_id/na_red_wolf.cfm (561 words)

	Red Wolves Back From Extinction In U.S. Wild (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A lone red wolf, a creature that was completely extinct in the wild less than two decades ago, prowls the North Carolina wilderness.
		Red wolf deaths are usually caused by vehicles, parasites, or aggression between wolves.
		Red wolves were reintroduced in 1987fourteen years after their relatives were removed from the wildin the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern North Carolina.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2003/01/0131_030131_redwolf.html (1060 words)

	NPCA \| Red Wolf
		Red wolves prefer to live in forests, swamps and coastal prairies.
		The red wolf's diet consists primarily of small mammals such as rabbits and rodents but also includes insects, berries and occasionally deer.
		The red wolf is primarily nocturnal (active at night).
	www.npca.org /wildlife_protection/wildlife_facts/redwolf.html (359 words)

	Defenders of Wildlife - Red Wolf Recovery in North Carolina - Environmental and Economic Benefits
		The red wolf, a smaller and more slender cousin of the timber wolf, originally roamed throughout the eastern United States as far north as Pennsylvania and as far west as central Texas.
		Like the timber wolf, the red wolf was persecuted relentlessly by people who mistakenly believed it posed a threat to livestock and humans.
		The recovery population goals outlined in the Red Wolf Recovery/Species Survival Plan call for the establishment of 220 red wolves in the wild and 330 in captivity along with the establishment and maintenance of at least three reintroduction projects within the historic range of the red wolf.
	www.defenders.org /wildlife/wolf/redwolf.html (542 words)

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		He looked like a little red wolf, even though he is a golden retriever/chow mix.
		Harley, destined to become the mascot for Red Wolf Ranch, was found abandoned at the Madera Fairgrounds.
	www.redwolfranch.com /about_us.php (372 words)

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