Red Wolf is Wild Animal

Red wolf (Canis lupus Rufus, before Canis Rufus) is a North American canid which once roamed throughout the Southeastern U.S.. Based on fossil and archaeological evidence, original red wolf range widely throughout the Southeast, from the Atlantic and the Gulf Coast, north of the Ohio River Valley and central Pennsylvania, and west to central Texas and southeastern Missouri. Historical habitats including forests, wetlands, and coastal meadows, where it is the apex predator. Red wolf morphological middle between the gray wolf and coyote, and recent genetic research indicates may actually be a hybrid species. Red wolf is considered extinct in the wild in 1980. 1987 see Reintroduction in northeastern North Carolina through breeding programs and animal considered successful breeding in the wild.

Red wolf standing around 66-79 cm (26-31 in) at the shoulder. The total length of 111-165 cm (44-65 in), including tail 30-43 cm (12-17 in). Weight can range from 16 to 41 kg (35 to 90 pounds), but on average about 24.5 kg (54 lb). Male red wolf about 10% larger than the female. Mantle length, rough, brown and buff colored majority in the upper body with some black along the backs. Snout long, wide nose pads and black, rufous ears, long legs, a long tail, a thick, black tips. The body is a mediator in the size of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) and coyote (Canis latrans)

Red wolf dogs started living with slate or dark gray wool with-auburn tinge visible on her head hairs (up to the name). Like mature, color changes color fans mix, chocolate, cinnamon and brown along the body and a black tipped tail, caregivers often have black hair and sometimes also serve with black or dark bar on the fore-foot. Black or melanistic individuals have occurred, the person is more general in Florida and the western region. The feather molts once each year in the winter. Moncongnya fluffy white around the lips. Red wolves generally the middle in size between coyote and gray wolf. However, proportionally long legs & big ears are two obvious features that separated from the red wolf coyote and gray wolf. Overall appearance of a more slender and elegant looking than the gray wolf.

Taxonomy of the red wolf has been debated since before the effort began in 1973 to save it from destruction. In 1971, Atkins and Dillon do research about brain Canids and confirmed its specificity and primitive features of the red wolf. Much research throughout the late 1970s focused on the morphology of red wolves came to the conclusion that the red wolf is a distinct species. In 1980, Ferrell et al. find unique alleles in Canis specimens from the red wolf range, supporting the conclusion that the red wolf is a distinct species. However, some people in the scientific community regard it as a subspecies of the gray wolf or a hybrid of the gray wolf and the coyote.

In 1992, the USFWS to do in-depth study of the literature, including their own, and concluded that the red wolf is one of its own separate species or a subspecies of the gray wolf. Many office reports, books and Web sites list red wolf as Canis Rufus but recent genetic research has opened up a new debate about the taxonomy of the two eastern Canadian wolf and the red wolf (Canis Lycaon). Wilson et al. (2000) concluded that the Eastern wolves and red wolves should be considered as sister taxa because of common ancestors going back 150,000 to 300,000 years. In addition, Wilson et al. further stated that they should be recognized as a distinct species from other North American Canids, and not as a subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus). However, this conclusion has been debated, and Mammal Species of the World today their list either as a subspecies of the gray wolf.

In May 2011, an analysis of the red wolf, Eastern wolf, gray wolf, and dog genomes revealed that the red wolf is 76 to 80 percent and only 20 to 24 percent coyote-gray wolf, red wolf actually showed that more in coyote Eastern origin of wolves. This study analyzed 48,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms and did not find evidence for unique Eastern wolf or red wolf species. However, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service still considers valid species red wolf and plan to make no changes to the rehabilitation program.

When considered as a full species, three subspecies of red wolf initially recognized by Goldman, two of the subspecies extinct. Rufus Canis floridanus (Maine to Florida). Have become extinct since 1930 and Canis Rufus gregoryi (south-central United States) expressed functionally extinct in the wild in 1980. Canis Rufus Rufus, the third living subspecies, also serves extinct in the wild in 1980, although its status is changed to "critically endangered" when breeding red wolves were reintroduced in the eastern part of North Carolina in 1987. Current status of the population "non-essential / experimental" in North Carolina is "threatened" and a population of approximately 100 wild animals.