Wild red wolf pups. Image Credit: Ryan Nordsven/USFWS, licensed by cc 2.0
A sterilization program to stop coyotes from hybridizing with the only wild population of red wolves in the world has been successful so far, according to new research. “Coyote genes are under 4 percent in the red wolf genome, so that’s good,” said Eric Gese, a research wildlife biologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Wildlife Research Center and lead author of a study recently published in Biological Conservation. For more information, see the the full article posted at wildlife.org.
