What is Red wolf?
{{Taxobox | name = Red wolf | status = CR | status_system = iucn3.1 | fossil_range = 10,000 Years-Present | image = 07-03-23RedWolfAlbanyGAChehaw.jpg | image_width = 250px | image_caption = | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | classis = [[Mammal]]ia | ordo = [[Carnivora]] | familia = [[Canidae]] | genus = ''[[Canis]]'' | species = [[Canis lupus]] | trinomial = ''Canis lupus rufus'' | trinomial_authority = [[John James Audubon|Audubon]] & [[John Bachman|Bachman]], 1851 }} The '''red wolf''' (''Canis rufus'') is a [[subspecies]] of [[wolf]]. It is an endangered species of [[wolf]] from Eastern [[North America]]. Red wolves were declared extinct in the wild in 1980 after the few remaining wild wolves were placed in a captive breeding program. Reintroduced to the wild in 1987 in northeastern [[North Carolina]], red wolves began to recover, but the population is rapidly diminishing as of late 2016. The red wolf is smaller than a gray wolf and larger than a [[coyote]]. It is slender and long-legged, and it lives in the wild only on the [[Albemarle Peninsula]] in North Carolina. It hunts small mammals, rodents, and [[white-tailed deer]]. There is a lot of controversy about its [[taxonomy]], which is not settled yet. {{-}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Wolves]] [[Category:Mammals of North America]]