DURHAM, N.C. — Red wolves used to be common in North Carolina, but worldwide, only 300 of the species now exist. 

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Durham's Museum of Life and Science prepares to move two red wolves

The purpose of moving red wolves to the Red Wolf Center is to give them a better quality of life in hopes they'll reproduce one day

Two new red wolves will join the museum later this fall 

Red Wolf brothers, Eno and Ellerbe, were born in 2018 at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham and have been raised there ever since.

Now, though, their time at the museum is coming to an end.

Eno and Ellerbe will be moving to the Red Wolf Center in Columbia, N.C. sometime this month.

According to the museum, it's all part of a nationwide program of zoos and nature centers working to rebuild the population of red wolves.

The purpose of the move is to improve the brothers' overall health and well being so they might reproduce one day.

“A lot of things to consider when it comes to breeding red wolves. We have very limited space and while everyone thinks 'oh, not enough wolves, we need to make more,' which we do, we need to be really strategic in our pairings, to make the most genetically valuable pairs we can, and therefore these two are not yet set to breed, but probably in the years to come they'll be part of a breeding pair," said Sherry Samuels, director of animal care.

It's a goodbye to Eno and Ellerbe, but a hello to two new wolves from other facilities later this fall. Details will be released at a later date.