Texas Fauna Project

Red Wolf

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Jim Shaw, Ph.D., is an emeritus professor at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, where he taught in the Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management. While still a doctoral candidate in the early 1970s, he studied the red wolf, coyote, and related crosses in southeast Texas. Here he gives a view of how red wolves and coyotes hybridized, showing how the expanding coyote population genetically swamped the rare red wolf.