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A wolf of the Grant Creek pack linage, taken in the Highway Pass area of Denali National Park.
The Grant Creek Pack is in some disarray right now. A trapper trapped the alpha female this spring and the loss of an alpha can disrupt the entire pack of the alpha male doesn't pick a new mate in the pack. I heard both that the pack was disbanding and that the outcome was still undertain this weekend.
If they disband it will be unfortunate as this pack has worked alongside the road for the last several years and is the source of most of the wolf sighings in Denali.
Designed by Hideo Komatsu.
Folded from Elephant Hide paper 50*50 cm and from Washi Paper size 40*40 cm.
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Space Wolves Razorback painted for my army a year or so back.
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My most favourite animal in the world. Another shot that took ages as they kept hiding behind trees!
Distribution: Red Wolves exist only in a reintroduced population in eastern North Carolina, U.S.
Population: Critically Endangered; increasing. Extinct in the wild by 1980, the Red Wolf was reintroduced by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in 1987 into eastern North Carolina. The Red Wolf is now common within the reintroduction area of roughly 6,000 km². However, the species' abundance outside the reintroduction area is unknown.
Threats: Hybridization with coyotes or Red Wolf x coyote hybrids is the primary threat to the species' persistence in the wild (Kelly et al. 1999). While hybridization with coyotes was a factor in the Red Wolf's initial demise in the wild, it was not detected as a problem in northeastern North Carolina until approximately 1992 (Phillips et al. 1995). Indeed, northeastern North Carolina was determined to be ideal for Red Wolf reintroductions because of a purported absence of coyotes (Parker 1986). However, during the 1990s, the coyote population apparently became well established in the area (P. Sumner pers. comm.; USFWS, unpubl.).
Human-induced mortality (vehicles and gunshots) can be significant. However, the threat this mortality represents to the population is unclear. Most vehicle deaths occurred early in the reintroduction and were likely due to naive animals. Nonetheless, the overall impact of these mortality factors will depend on the proportion of the losses attributable to the breeding segment of the population (effective population (Ne) and what proportion of the overall population is lost due to these human factors (both N and Ne)).
Photo credit: Red Wolf Standing