{"id":825,"date":"2009-06-15T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/06\/15\/a-new-breed-of-wolf-in-the-adirondacks\/"},"modified":"2009-06-15T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T13:30:00","slug":"a-new-breed-of-wolf-in-the-adirondacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/06\/15\/a-new-breed-of-wolf-in-the-adirondacks\/","title":{"rendered":"A new breed of wolf in the Adirondacks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The growing scientific consensus looks something like this:<\/p>\n<p>In the 1800s, red wolves &#8212; the naturally-occurring species in the Northeastern US &#8212; were hunted to extinction.<\/p>\n<p>Habitat was fragmented by farmers and new, sprawling communities.<\/p>\n<p>Coyotes slunk in from the west, interbreeding cheerfully with the surviving red wolf populations.<\/p>\n<p>The hybrids that resulted are clever, adaptable, and seem to co-exist perfectly well with humans.<\/p>\n<p>They also look and act a lot like wolves:  They&#8217;re big, they hunt deer in packs, and boy do they howl. <\/p>\n<p>(Our farm in Westport is ringed by a forested creek and there are evenings when it feels a little like the Baskervilles around here&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>So what are you seeing out there?  And are you satisfied that we have a new, &#8220;natural&#8221; wolf-like critter completing the food chain? <\/p>\n<p>Or do we still yearn for &#8220;pure&#8221; wolves of a bygone era?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The growing scientific consensus looks something like this: In the 1800s, red wolves &#8212; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}