What is the difference between a gray wolf and a red wolf?

Answer 1

Grey wolves are larger with thicker fur and live more north than the red wolves. Red wolves can be found more south, like the deserts of Texas or Mexico, and Grey wolves live in Canada, Alaska, and all of the northwestern states although some can also be found in Mexico. They are of Eurasian origin and can also be found in Africa.

Red wolves are actually hybrids between Grey wolves and coyotes. There used to be three different populations of these hybrids, one in Florida which was a cross between the extinct Florida Black wolves and an earlier great plains coyote population, one in the Mississippi Valley which was a cross between the Mississippi wolves and the great plains coyotes and the last one alive today is a captive population that originated from a remnant extracted from Texas who may be hybrids between the extinct Texas Grey wolf and the southern Texas coyotes. Today, they have been reintroduced into North Carolina. It's also possible that some of the so-called Red wolves from Texas may also have Mexican Grey wolves in them since that population has also mixed with coyotes when they were nearly driven to extinction.

All of the other ones have since backcrossed extensively with coyotes as the pure Grey wolves slowly died out in the east from persecutions. In Canada, the Eastern wolf is another Grey wolf/coyote hybrid population that is closely related to the Red wolves in which they also have much coyote influences and is intermediate in size between the Grey wolves and coyotes.

Answer 2

The Timber Wolf, or Grey Wolf, is larger and thicker in coat than Red Wolves. Also, the Timber wolf is mostly grey and the Red wolf is more of a reddish brown color. Timber Wolves can be found more North like in Canada and Red Wolves are more South like in Mexico.

Answer 3

The grey wolf is a species of canid found across Eurasia and North America. It is sometimes referred to as the timber wolf, in which case there is no difference between 'grey wolf' and 'timber wolf'. However, the eastern timber wolf is a specific subspecies - you can still call it a grey wolf or a timber wolf, but you can't call a wolf from another area an eastern timber wolf. The arctic wolf is another subspecies, in which all individuals are white - in other subspecies, wolves may vary widely in colour, being black, grey, brown, white or any combination of these (though it is rare to find a completely white individual in any subspecies but the arctic wolf). Again, you can still call an arctic wolf a grey wolf - it's still the same species - but you can't call a wolf from another subspecies an arctic wolf.

Answer 4

its that a timber wolf needs to live in the wild in the woods while a coyote can live any were it likes and the coyote can live in alot of diffrent habetats

Answer 5

A timber wolf is a certain breed of wolf. A wolf in general, is well, a wolf.

Answer 6

a black wolf is really just a gray wolf with black fur. Still part of the Timber wolf.

Answer 7

Timber Wolves are actually a species of wolf. Brush Wolves are just common Coyotes. It's just a 'nickname' for them.