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Conservation

© Linda Plaisted

What a howl...

Ok, so you're not going to believe this, but while we were sitting out
on the oceanfront deck of our beach house the first evening, watching
the shooting stars, I saw this strange-looking animal in the dunes in
front of us. At first I thought it was a cat, but it was entirely too
HUGE to be a cat and it had a big, squared head and blunt muzzle.
I decided it had to be some kind of bobcat or something and someone
else suggested it was a fox, yet it didn't have the pointed face and bushy tail of a fox.

It was very bold and stood not more than ten feet away just staring at
me before running off into the dusk of the dunes. Naturally it was the one time I did not have my camera at the ready...

The next day, M's Dad was reading some of the books in the house about
the Outer Banks and came across an article about the nearly extinct
red wolf population of Eastern North Carolina. Sure enough, when we
looked at the pictures, that is exactly what we saw the night before! It must have
been a juvenile though, because its features weren't as fully defined as an
adult wolf's, but wolf it was. Canis rufus.

How bizarre to think of seeing a wolf, 20 feet from the beach in a
residential area of North Carolina!

Apparently the red wolf population in North Carolina was declared
extinct in the 1980's, but a breeding program was started to try to
save them, yet less than 100 wolves are thought to be living in the entire
state. It's amazing to think that we saw one of that very small
number. Apparently conservation efforts sometimes are effective.
So, please keep off the dunes.

Taken on: August 17, 2007

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