Diet. Wolves are voracious eaters. They can eat up to 20 lbs. (9 kg) of food during one meal. ... To help with the red wolf population, wild wolves are given pups that are born in captivity.

But, the daily demands of running Red Wolf Sanctuary come first, and the non-profit wildlife preservation is spreading the word that it could use some help. Skip to content NOWCAST WLWT News 5 Today ...

A red wolf (Canis rufus) in North Carolina, ... Diet . These canids are carnivores, and like to hunt and eat white-tailed deer, racoons, and small mammals like rabbits and mice.

On Sept. 26, Red Wolf 2323 — father to the world’s only red wolf pups in the wild — followed the scent of a bear carcass to the edge of U.S. 64, which cuts through the refuge, ...

WLWT News 5's John London watched Monday as Paul Strasser, director of Red Wolf Sanctuary, readied the day's diet, pulling out a bagful of refrigerated mice, ...

Courtesy New York Wolf Conservation Center. In 1987, the USFWS gave the red wolf a second chance at survival in the wild, releasing several captive bred wolves into North Carolina’s Alligator ...

The red wolf is one of the most endangered animals on the planet. That's why environmentalists were ecstatic to find the first litter born in the wild in four years — six pups.

Scientists are hopeful that the endangered red wolf population, absent from the wild for decades, could be revived now that a significant portion of its DNA has been found in wild coyote populations.

A pair of 7-week-old red wolf pups explore their habitat at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, N.C., Tuesday, June 13, 2017. The Museum's six-year-old female gave birth to three male and ...

The red wolf is the world's most endangered wolf species. The only wild population is in North Carolina, with just 13 known individuals. An environmental group has sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

Every American red wolf alive right now is descended from only 14 canids. In the 1970s, humans drove the red wolf to the brink of extinction. Because of that, red wolves today have low genetic ...