Red Wolf

                     Red Wolf

Opening statement:

The scientific name for the the Red wolf is Canis rufus.The Red Wolf is also known as the Florida Wolf or mississippi valley wolf.Is Also Native to the Eastern United States.The Red Wolf also travel in packs for protection in all the wolf’s traveling.

Appearance:

The Red Wolf has gray or black fur mixed with red especially on its legs and sides.It is bigger than a coyote and smaller than a gray wolf.The Red wolf weighs about 45 to 80 pounds and stands up to two feet tall from shoulder to feet and the average wolf is 4 feet long from the point of his nose to the tippi point of his tail.

Diet:

Red Wolf’s are carvivoiuse thouh their diet in size depending their prey.Mostly they will hunt smaller animals like racoons,rabbits and rodents as well as tailed deer.

Behavior:

Red Wolves are only really only active at night and share new ideas by scent marking,vocalizations and howling and facial expressions and body postures.Red Wolf also are a bit shy or secretive they also hunt in pack’s.The breeding adult pair are the Alpha male and female and their children.

General statement:

The Red Wolf was almost hunted to extinction but is still extremely endangered.In the wild they live up to 6 to 7 year’s old and up to 13 to 15 years in captivity.