Photo by Curtis Carley (Wikimedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAs you can imagine, the Red Wolf was named after the reddish-brown colour of their fur coat. \u00a0You think they would have named it the Reddish-Brown Wolf. \u00a0As with other wolves, the Red Wolf is also a very sociable animal and will live in packs usually containing anywhere from 2 to 10 members. Although, this particular wolf species will hunt in packs to take down larger prey, such as deer, they tend \u00a0to spend most of their time hunting alone for smaller animals such as rodents, rabbits and birds. I guess when they get tired of eating rodents, they round up the posse for a real dinner. \u00a0I know I would prefer deer to mice any day of the week.<\/p>\n
Red Wolf Fast Fact – <\/strong>The decline of the Red Wolf population was mostly due to overhunting by humans, however, the loss of habitat was the human activity that put this wolf on the brink of extinction. \u00a0Today, the Red Wolf is considered to be the 10th most endangered animal in the world. \u00a0I am not sure if we should be congratulating them for this honour or not.<\/p>\nThat does it for today’s Wild Fact. \u00a0I will see you on Canada’s Day for the last fact of the week.<\/p>\n
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I hope your week is moving along very well as we approach the long weekend (well, in Canada it is a long weekend). \u00a0So I guess for Canadians this is actually Friday’s Wild Fact. \u00a0Don’t worry, I will make sure to post another one so my non-Canadian readers can have something to do on the real Friday. \u00a0Today though, we are going to be talking about another animal that was thought to be extinct in the wild, however, due to re-introduction programs there are about 100 Red Wolves running around in the Southern USA. That’s right, there is something <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,4024],"tags":[348,239,4025,2035,2037,2036,2038],"yoast_head":"\n
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