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Big Game Hunting => Wolves => Topic started by: Caseyd on January 13, 2019, 08:46:27 PM

Title: Red Wolf not extinct like believed
Post by: Caseyd on January 13, 2019, 08:46:27 PM: https://komonews.com/news/offbeat/dna-of-wolf-declared-extinct-in-wild-lives-on-in-texas-pack
Title: Re: Red Wolf not extinct like believed
Post by: WAcoyotehunter on January 13, 2019, 09:18:38 PM: That's cool. The red wolf is a neat little animal. Hopefully it can find a place in the easy despite the coyote invasion
Title: Re: Red Wolf not extinct like believed
Post by: banishd on January 13, 2019, 09:44:08 PM: Im sure they are already trying to figure out how to reintroduce and these hybrid wolfs somewhere though. :bash:
Title: Re: Red Wolf not extinct like believed
Post by: KFhunter on January 13, 2019, 10:35:45 PM: :yeah:

I wonder who put them there :dunno:

Or are we suppose to believe this one pack has survived for 100 years on it's own and isolated? How inbred would that make them?
Title: Re: Red Wolf not extinct like believed
Post by: KFhunter on January 13, 2019, 10:38:14 PM: Quote from: WAcoyotehunter on January 13, 2019, 09:18:38 PM
That's cool. The red wolf is a neat little animal. Hopefully it can find a place in the easy despite the coyote invasion

What kind of coyote invasion? Guys hauling drugs and smuggling humans across the border? :chuckle:

There's no coyote invasion, that happened many many years ago.
Title: Re: Red Wolf not extinct like believed
Post by: WAcoyotehunter on January 13, 2019, 11:27:46 PM: The coyote invasion to the east, that essentially displaced the red wolf
Title: Re: Red Wolf not extinct like believed
Post by: KFhunter on January 14, 2019, 08:41:34 AM: Quote from: WAcoyotehunter on January 13, 2019, 11:27:46 PM
The coyote invasion to the east, that essentially displaced the red wolf

Oh, gotcha. I didn't know you meant east by the typo above "easy" in your first post.

So are you suggesting they take this hybrid out of the TX gulf coast and transplant it back east?
Title: Re: Red Wolf not extinct like believed
Post by: Alchase on January 14, 2019, 09:27:20 AM: So a hybrid of a hybrid :rolleyes:

Ironic Point Defiance Zoo has been the leader in redistribution of the Red Wolf (hybrid)

"By the late 1960s, it occurred in small numbers in the Gulf Coast of western Louisiana and eastern Texas. Fourteen of these survivors were selected to be the founders of a captive-bred population, which was established in the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium between 1974 and 1980. After a successful experimental relocation to Bulls Island off the coast of South Carolina in 1978, the red wolf was declared extinct in the wild in 1980 to proceed with restoration efforts. In 1987, the captive animals were released into the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge on the Albemarle Peninsula in North Carolina, with a second release, since reversed, taking place two years later in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.[15] Of 63 red wolves released from 1987–1994,[16] the population rose to as many as 100–120 individuals in 2012, but has declined to 40 individuals in 2018."
Title: Re: Red Wolf not extinct like believed
Post by: hunter399 on January 14, 2019, 09:27:55 AM: We all know these wolf lovin freaks are tranquilized these coyotes implanted wolf baby gravy .Just so they could protect every coyote .Coming soon here in Washington I suspect. :chuckle: :tinfoil: