Red Wolf

Identification: "Mostly brown and buff colored with some black along their backs; there is sometimes a reddish color behind their ears, on their muzzle, and toward the backs of their legs."*
They are intermediate in size between gray wolves and coyotes. Their total length from tip of muzzle to tip of tail is about 4-5 feet.
Weight averages between 50-70 for adult animals.

 

The photographs below were taken from Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge, Hyde County, North Carolina

 

*Referenced from: http://www.fieldtripearth.org/article.xml?id=1126