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Are they in this area, being TN? If so does anyone have any pics of them? I'm getting ready to hunt a new farm and the owners claims to have seen a red wolf with a pack of coyotes. Just curious what to look for. :grin:
 
their are red wolves in lbl. we were warned about shooting them at a predator masters hunt a few years back
 
MWoodard said:
A bottle of moonshine.
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I think you're right... I wish we did have wolves here... you'd never get me out of the woods trying to call one in!
 
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There are no free-ranging red wolves that we know of in Tennessee. In fact, in the late 70s it was determined that there were only about 14 pure red wolves left in existence. The red wolves at LBL are penned in at the Nature Station as part of a breeding program( LBL Red Wolves ). The last red wolves to run free were over in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, however that reintroduction failed due to lack of reproduction. The last red wolf in Tennessee was captured and moved to either Coastal Carolina or Louisiana in 1997.
 
Plateau Hunter said:
You mean like this? I always wondered about this one. Biggest 'coyote' I have ever killed and 3 legged to boot. PH

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PH that is a stud Alpha yote right there. I have killed some over 40 pounds with the biggest 48 lbs back in the early 90s. That may be what they have seen running with that pack of yotes mentioned earlier. Could be a big red phased alpha yote. The average yote will run around 30 pounds give or take a couple.
 
No I didn't weight him. I wish that I had. I would estimate him at 50# or so. I am not claiming that it is a red wolf but if you google for pictures they look a lot like this animal. PH
 
If you guys are interested and you still have it, you can send the skull in to us and we should be able to determine what species it is. Shoot me a pm if you are interested.
 
If you can get the skull to our main office in Nashville, we'll take a look at it. Call me at (615) 781-6615 so we can figure out the best way to get it here. I promise we'll return it... :)
 
BGG so how do you all investigate when someone tells you that they have seen one? Are there some kind of study's that the TWRA does or ?????
 
Just speaking from my own experiences, but the couple of red wolves I have seen in Eastern NC can be very difficult, if not impossible to distinguish from a coyote, especially in a hunting type scenario. Many are hybridized with the coyote, and some would say there are no pure wild free ranging red wolves left. If someone told me he saw a red wolf with coyotes, that would be red flag right there, because I honestly do not see how they would be able to accurately make that call since there are many variations in fur color with the yotes. Just my .02
 
BigGameGuy said:
There are no free-ranging red wolves that we know of in Tennessee. In fact, in the late 70s it was determined that there were only about 14 pure red wolves left in existence. The red wolves at LBL are penned in at the Nature Station as part of a breeding program( LBL Red Wolves ). The last red wolves to run free were over in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, however that reintroduction failed due to lack of reproduction. The last red wolf in Tennessee was captured and moved to either Coastal Carolina or Louisiana in 1997.
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Red wolf numbers
continually change due to
births and deaths. At the end of
August 1997, the total population was 240 to
317. Wild populations numbered 54 to 129, with 45 to 92 of these animals occurring in eastern North Carolina and the other 9 to 37 occurring in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in eastern Tennessee. Another 11 to 13 red wolves existed on three island propagation sites off the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. The remaining 175 red wolves were located at 35 captive-breeding facilities involving 33 cooperators.

http://library.fws.gov/Pubs4/endangered_red_wolves.pdf
 
MRUTVOL said:
Plateau Hunter said:
You mean like this? I always wondered about this one. Biggest 'coyote' I have ever killed and 3 legged to boot. PH

IMG_1908.jpg
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PH that is a stud Alpha yote right there. I have killed some over 40 pounds with the biggest 48 lbs back in the early 90s. That may be what they have seen running with that pack of yotes mentioned earlier. Could be a big red phased alpha yote. The average yote will run around 30 pounds give or take a couple.
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I killed one that was 54 lbs

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This picture of a Red Wolf looks a lot like this one I killed!

http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/deta ... Num=MA0461
 

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