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I went to the Outer Banks of North Carolina this week and on the way home stopped off at Alligator River Wildlife Refuge. I found a couple other photographers at the road side who had spotted a Red Wolf in one of the cleared fields, 3-400 yards from the road we were on. I could say I saw one this trip. Took a shot with my Z9 and 500 PF. Having followed Steve's tips I was set on a wide area AF. Well a brown wolf in brown scrub doesn't work so well. Being the astute fellow I am, I remembered that I had a spot focus programmed in also. Bingo! As luck would have it the wolf headed our way and after a bit the 400 yds dwindled to 100 then 40. After 360 shots, I have now reset the shutter to make a sound. Any way, the wolf was directly across the canal from the road and turned to parallel the road before picking up the pace. As many times as I have been there and seen a wolf, they have always been 150-300 yds away from the road. I would guess they are used to humans but not looking for handouts. These guys are critically endangered, thus the monitoring collar. Midway between a coyote and grey wolf in size.
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Joe Donahue said:
Sorry folks, system keeps telling me they are running into problems with any of my photos.
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Not sure what kind of errors you're seeing but if you want to post photos here on the BCG forums:

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Really nice sighting! I have never been to one of the few places they can be seen in the wild, though I have seen them in a few zoos.

As stated, they are midway in size between a coyote and gray wolf. As many of you know, there is a consensus among some biologists that they are in fact the result of coyote and gray wolf hybridization.
 
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MrFotoFool said:
Really nice sighting! I have never been to one of the few places they can be seen in the wild, though I have seen them in a few zoos.

As stated, they are midway in size between a coyote and gray wolf. As many of you know, there is a consensus among some biologists that they are in fact the result of coyote and gray wolf hybridization.
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As of 2019, the latest study of hybridization, determined that they were indeed separate species. But when the population numbers were down, red wolves did have sex with coyotes, but given a choice preferred wolf over coyote. Evidently red wolves have been traced back 10,000 years . The study is being still being 'reviewed' by proponents on each side of the argument.
 
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Intersting - thanks for update. To further complicate matters, I read that some biologists believe the eastern wolf (mostly extinct in USA) may be a distince species from gray wolf. I also just found out that coyotes only populated the eastern half of the country relatively recently.
 
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