Center for Biological Diversity on Instagram: "Did you know that Red Wolves are among the most endangered carnivores in the world? Once spread across the U.S. Southeast, these clever and highly adaptive predators suffered a similar fate to that of their gray wolf cousins. People relentlessly persecuted them, to the extent that in 1980 — after the capture of the last remaining red wolves for a captive-breeding program — the species was declared extinct in the wild. Since then, red wolves have ret