{"id":236894,"date":"2022-04-23T22:24:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T22:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/for-the-first-time-in-4-years-a-litter-of-red-wolf-pups-was-born-in-the-wild"},"modified":"2022-04-23T22:24:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T22:24:30","slug":"for-the-first-time-in-4-years-a-litter-of-red-wolf-pups-was-born-in-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/for-the-first-time-in-4-years-a-litter-of-red-wolf-pups-was-born-in-the-wild","title":{"rendered":"For the first time in 4 years, a litter of red wolf pups was born in the wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Fish and Wildlife staff in North Carolina welcomed a litter of six red wolf pups into the world earlier this week. It&#8217;s the first time in four years that a pair of wild red wolves &#8212; a species teetering on the brink of extinction &#8212; gave birth to a litter in the wild. The newborn pups, four females and two males, were found in the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge along the coast of northeastern North Carolina. Staff at the Red Wolf Recovery Program announced the paw-sitive news on Facebook Thursday. &#8220;This new litter is the first wild-born litter of red wolves since 2018. This red wolf pair was formed through the combination of several management actions and the two red wolves subsequently following their natural instincts in pairing, establishing their territory and mating,&#8221; the post read . &#8220;Every generation yields a new born hope for the red wolf&#8230;a cause for joy and celebration!&#8221; Before settlers arrived in North<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The red wolf is one of the most endangered animals on the planet. That&#8217;s why environmentalists were ecstatic to find the first litter born in the wild in four years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}