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Red wolves are not extinct, they live here where i live, north carolina, they live here more to the beach in the back woods, they kind of look like a coyote

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The red wolf population in North Carolina was introduced back into the wild to bring the animal back from extinction. The wild population consists of about 100 animals and is still considered highly endangered although from what I've read, and based on the answer above, they seem to be thriving. As far as why the red wolf went extinct in the wild to begin with, they went extinct because a) they were heavily hunted because they were considered to be a threat to livestock and b) habitat loss due to agriculturalization.

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