Q 01/05

Which U.S. state, home to the Outer Banks, holds the only wild red wolves left on Earth?

A) Georgia

B) North Carolina

C) Virginia

D) South Carolina

Answer · why

B) North Carolina

North Carolina is the red wolf's last stand: every wild one lives on the Albemarle Peninsula, a low, swampy stretch of farms and refuges behind the ba...

Q 02/05

In size, red wolves fall between gray wolves and which smaller wild canine that also interbreeds with them?

A) Coyote

B) Red fox

C) Jackal

D) Dingo

Answer · why

A) Coyote

Coyote genes are the red wolf's quiet threat: a wolf that cannot find a mate of its own kind may pair with one, so biologists sterilize the smaller an...

Q 03/05

The red wolf's long, slender legs have led some writers to compare its build to which dog breed?

A) German shepherd

B) Siberian husky

C) Greyhound

D) Border collie

Answer · why

C) Greyhound

Greyhound is the comparison, and the lean frame suits a hunter that can cover 20 miles in a day looking for food.

Q 04/05

Which Native American nation calls the red wolf wa'ya and traditionally avoids killing one?

A) Navajo

B) Lakota

C) Seminole

D) Cherokee

Answer · why

D) Cherokee

Cherokee tradition holds that a slain wolf's pack-mates will take revenge, and the Aniwaya, or Wolf Clan, traces itself to the hunter Kana'ti, the ani...

Q 05/05

Which national park's gray wolf reintroduction was modeled on the earlier red wolf recovery program?

A) Rocky Mountain

B) Yellowstone

C) Glacier

D) Yosemite

Answer · why

B) Yellowstone

Yellowstone borrowed the playbook: red wolves were the first large carnivore in the United States returned after vanishing from the wild, and later pr...