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Canis lupus rufus (Red Wolf)

Synonyms:

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Canis lupus rufus

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  58.202 lbs (26.40 kg)
Female Weight [1]  53.573 lbs (24.30 kg)
Male Weight [1]  62.832 lbs (28.50 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [1]  17.3 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore
Female Maturity [1]  1 year 9 months
Male Maturity [1]  1 year 9 months
Gestation [3]  61 days
Litter Size [3]  7
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  13 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Odocoileus virginianus (white-tailed deer)[1]
Procyon lotor (Raccoon)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Puma concolor (Cougar)1
Vulpes vulpes (Red Fox)1

Consumers

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 14.2 Red wolf, Canis rufus, B.T. Kelly, A. Beyer and M.K. Phillips, Sillero-Zubiri, C., Hoffmann, M. and Macdonald, D.W. (eds). 2004. Canids: Foxes, Wolves, Jackals and Dogs. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN/SSC Canid Specialist Group. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. x + 430 pp.
♦ 2Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 3Canis rufus, John L. Paradiso and Ronald M. Nowak, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 22, pp. 1-4 (1972)
♦ 4Nunn, C. L., and S. Altizer. 2005. The Global Mammal Parasite Database: An Online Resource for Infectious Disease Records in Wild Primates. Evolutionary Anthroplogy 14:1-2.
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 6International Flea Database
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0