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Red wolf

Red wolf. Original appearance.

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Red wolf

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  1. Red wolf

  2. Original appearance • From the nearest relative of grey wolf red wolves differ in less sizes. A red wolf is more slender, for him longer than leg and ears, and fur - shorter. However he is larger than coyote : length of his body makes a 100-130 cm, tail are a 30-42 cm, height in withers - 66-79 см. Adult males weigh 20-40 kg, females, as a rule, on 1/3 easier. • There is a red, brown, grey and black color in окрасе of fur. A back is usually black. Muzzle and extremities - reddish, the end of tail is black. Red окрас due to that a kind got the name prevailed among the Texas populations. Red fur also prevails in winter. The annual molting takes place

  3. Way of life and feed • On the way of life a red wolf is near to the usual wolf. Initially they dwelt in the forests, on the swamped lowlands and in coastal prairies; conducted a nocturnalism. Now red wolves are repeatedly occupied in difficult of access mountain and swamped districts. • Red wolves have a less than, than at grey covey; they consist of domestic(propagative) pair and her posterity, both young and growing up. Sometimes families overgrow considerably. In family practically there are not displays of aggression, however in regard to unknown wolves family members are adjusted unfriendly. • Food of red wolf is made mainly by rodents(including nutrias and ondatras), rabbit and raccoon; now and then a covey catches a deer. Adding to the ration are insects and berries, and also carrion. • In turn red wolves can become the victims of other wolfish, including relatives from other coveys. Large predators - alligators and red hunt on young animals

  4. Reproduction • Red wolves live by families only dominant pairs propagate in that. A pair, as well as for other wolves, is created on great while. Other members of group help to bring up posterity and bring a feed for лактирующих she-wolves. • The season of reproduction proceeds from January for March. Pregnancy lasts 60-63 days; in a dung there are 3-6 puppies(rarely - to 12) that give birth in spring. Dens females arrange in pits under the disappointed trees, in sandy slopes, on the banks of the rivers. Posterity both parents engage in; puppies become independent in 6 months. • Life-span of red wolf is in the wild - 4; in a captivity they lived so long to 14

  5. State of population • the Red wolf is added to the international Red book with status "kind being in a critical danger"(Critically endangered). • To the middle of XX of century of red wolves exterminated for attacking live-stock and game(strongly exaggerated). In 1967 a kind was declared to dying(Endangered) out and measures began to be undertaken on his rescue. All present population of red wolves happened from 14 individuals contained in a captivity. Now there are approximately 270 individuals in the world, 100 from that it was released in North Carolina. • Traditionally counted three subspecieses of red wolf, two from that

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