How to Use red wolf in a Sentence

red wolf

noun
  • The red wolf once roamed a huge swath of the eastern United States.
    Fionna M. D. Samuels, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Guests can expect to see the pups in the zoo’s red wolf habitat in June.
    Alexis Oatman, cleveland, 13 May 2021
  • In 1980, the Fish and Wildlife Service declared red wolves extinct in the wild.
    Ted Gregory, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2018
  • Once common across the Southeast, the red wolf had been considered extinct in the wild as of 1980.
    Washington Post, 27 June 2018
  • Gray wolves average 65 pounds and red wolves weigh about 50.
    Ted Gregory, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2018
  • Some that were studied were found to have around 70 percent of red wolf DNA while others have less.
    Ariana Garcia, Chron, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Each pup is valuable for the survival of the species and represents hope for the red wolf population overall.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 May 2017
  • Deer, bobcats, minks, otters, red wolves and black fox squirrels hide among live oak, palmetto and pine.
    John Bordsen, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2017
  • The four red wolf pups remaining at the Akron Zoo, three males and one female, are currently living in a den box in a private habitat.
    Alexis Oatman, cleveland, 13 May 2021
  • Meanwhile coyotes would breed with red wolves, creating hybrids that watered down the gene pool.
    Robbie George, National Geographic, 29 June 2018
  • The endangered red wolf population could be completely gone in the next ten years.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 1 May 2018
  • Nevertheless, recent research shows that red wolves are a unique species.
    National Geographic, 27 July 2019
  • Zayn recently posted a video on Instagram with tattoo artist Megan Massacre, who added this red wolf to the middle of his chest.
    Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 5 Jan. 2023
  • In their heyday, the larger red wolves ruled through intimidation.
    Darryl Fears, The Denver Post, 3 June 2019
  • The wonder: North Carolina's wealth of wildlife, including 121 mammal species from armadillos to red wolves.
    Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 25 June 2018
  • This article has been corrected to reflect that Eastern and red wolves were descendants rather than ancestors of gray wolves and coyotes.
    The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Mar. 2019
  • The preliminary ruling comes in a lawsuit filed late last year by red wolf conservation groups in a federal court in North Carolina, the only place in the world where the wolf roams wild outside of zoos or wildlife refuges.
    Jonathan Drew, Star Tribune, 22 Jan. 2021
  • Many have cited the success of red wolf reintroduction as inspiration for creating programs for gray wolves in Wyoming and Arizona.
    Robbie George, National Geographic, 29 June 2018
  • Breeding programs are seen as critical to ensuring the red wolf population has a future.
    Natasha Dado, PEOPLE.com, 24 Apr. 2022
  • In red wolves, inflammatory bowel disease is common and is not curable.
    Megan Becka, cleveland.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • One reason that the red wolf populations declined in the wild is because the animals frequently interbred with coyotes.
    New York Times, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The findings suggest that using less lethal strategies to manage coyote populations will enable the red wolf genetic ancestry to persist, even though the species no longer exists in the wild, according to the study.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 29 June 2022
  • For instance, the center looks at all carcasses of northern sea otters off the Pacific Northwest, North Carolina’s red wolves, and bald eagles nationwide.
    National Geographic, 6 July 2016
  • The hall of mammals had sixteen permanent exhibits, which included buffalo, elk, white tail deer, raccoon, badger, red wolf, coyotes and many others.
    Dallas News, 21 June 2019
  • Roberts explained that this matchmaking is especially crucial for species like the red wolf that have extremely small populations.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 4 June 2022
  • These included the aardwolf, Canadian otter, spectacled bear, raccoon, and red wolf.
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2012
  • On Friday, Malik showed off two post-breakup tattoos on Instagram, which add to his already impressive collection believed to surpass 60, including a red wolf, his dad’s name, and Hadid’s eyes on his chest.
    Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 17 Mar. 2018
  • Gray wolves once occupied most of what is now the contiguous United States—basically everywhere except the Southeast (which was red wolf territory).
    Ula Chrobak, Popular Science, 5 Nov. 2020
  • 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.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 29 June 2022
  • There's also talk of establishing a red wolf breeding and research facility in Arkansas.
    Arkansas Online, 2 July 2021

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