Red Wolves Identity Crisis: Article Analysis

This article is written about the red wolves and eastern wolves’ identity crisis. Studies have proven that red wolves and eastern wolves aren’t a purebred species. Instead they seem to be a mixture of two other kinds of wolves, gray wolves and coyotes. The article states that gray wolves and coyotes have inbred in the past in order to prevent the wolves endangerment. Gray wolves were living in much of North America, until they were nearly all killed to extinction. People were concerned about this and decided to pass a law (The Endangered Species Act) that made it illegal to harm gray wolves. This prevention led to the production of more gray wolves and kept them out of the endangerment zone. Red wolves and eastern wolves of course look similar to gray wolves but are classified as different type of wolf. Eastern wolves are found near the Great Lakes region where the gray wolf population is low. Red wolves are based around the southeastern United States. That is also a region where gray wolves do not exist anymore. Scientists have looked at the entire genome of red wolves and eastern wolves. They

A gray wolf and a coyote can inbreed to create a different species, but not all wolves will look identical to all the other of its species. For example, some wolves may inherit more traits from the wolf, or more traits from the coyote, but they will not all be identical to the others. If the gray wolf and the coyote continue breeding with one another, there will be more different types of species that turn out. But if the wolf/coyote species moves to a different climate zone, that species will eventually adapt to its environment and gain or lose traits. If this inbreeding continues, it can affect society because there would be several species that are mixes of wolves/coyotes, which would be hard to tell apart because of the different traits the species can adapt or