3.9K views · 111 reactions | A meditation on Mexican gray wolf habitat in eastern Arizona with aerial and remote camera footage. In 1990, the Center launched a lawsuit that would lead to the reintroduction of wolves into Arizona and New New Mexico. | Center for Biological Diversity | Facebook

Who doesn’t love an underdog? This is the story of North America’s “other” wolf (and my favorite wolf) — the American red wolf. Unlike the gray wolf (Canis lupus), whose range extends across North America and Eurasia, the red wolf (Canis rufus) is native only to North America. Historically, it inhabited a range from what is now eastern Texas to Northern Pennsylvania (we think), with several subspecies, including the Florida black wolf (Canis rufus floridanus). But by the late 1900s, its populati