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= The Red Wolf =

=The red wolf lives in wetlands, mixed forests, agricultural lands. They range throughout the South eastern U.S. from Pennsylvania to Florida. They mostly live in North Carolina. Due to the endangerment of the Red Wolf it is less of a range that the wolf lives in these areas. Not only did the red wolves population decrease but the range of where it lives decreases.= = =

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=They usually eat rabbits, rodents, insects, berries, and occasionally deer. Nothing eats it. The reproduction of the red wolf is very interesting. Sometimes they form pair bonds within each other for life.=

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=The mating season starts in late winter, they have a natural birth process, and the gestation part lasts around 60-63 days. While the mother can have up to 2-8 pups.=

=They are a more smaller and slender cousin of the grey wolf, they are a grey-black with a redish coat that gives them the color of where they get there names from.=

=Some of the reasons why the red wolf is almost extinct is because there is habitat loss due to human development, illegal killings, and by motor vehicles running the animals over. They are considered critically endangered. Red wolves are primarily nocturnal, and they communicate by scent, markings, howling, facial expressions, and body posture. they mostly hunt alone or in small packs. There are fewer than 20 pure red wolves in captivity in 1980.= media type="custom" key="23052372"