The Agile Wolf

Species Information:
Species Name: Agile Wolf (aka, Fleet Wolf, Felf(feline+wolf), Caline(canine+feline), Felnine(feline+canine))
Subspecies: Bengal Agile, Siberian Agile, Amazonian Agile, Congo Agile, Arctic Agile
Habitat: Jungles and Forests
Physical Description: The Agile Wolf varies in size from the estimated size of a dire wolf, to the size of an adult Siberian Tiger. Their body builds vary as well, some sleek and quick like cheetahs, others stocky and strong like a lion or tiger. Coat colors also vary between wolf colorations and large cat colors. Sometimes the animals even have combinations of colorations. The Agile wolves also have slightly longer nails, which can also retract, like a cat’s.
Behavior: An Agile is a cautious creature, living in an environment where there is always something besides you lying in wait for an ambush. When something new catches their interest, they observe it from a safe distance before approaching to inspect it further. If packs happen to come across another one, they will end up observing each other for weeks before a few wolves from each group go to investigate the other. When Mated, mates are loyal to a fault, sometimes going out of their way to make sure their Mate is happy, sometimes even denying their own happiness and sometimes even needs to do so.
Discovered History: Nobody's quite sure how they came to be, but the Agile Wolves are a very unique. DNA tests of deceased specimens when the species was found shown their DNA was an almost perfect blend of Canine & Feline Genes in a Canid body. At first, scientists dismissed the findings as a joke. And for several decades the animals were dismissed as cryptids.
Then, in 1990 three pairs of a strangely colored wolf was brought to Central Park Zoo. They had been caught in the wild around a small village in Mexico, which housed white missionaries who were untrusting of the wild visitors.
The zookeepers were in shock, and before putting the animals out for public viewing, got a DNA sample from each animal before sending it to be tested. The scientists, after testing, considered another hoax and sent one of their own to collect samples from the animals.
When he arrived at the holding habitat, he was shocked to find the wolves in trees. It would not have been odd if it was a tree that was low to the ground and growing horizontal, but the tree was an oak tree, and two of the animals were spotted like leopards, two like jaguars, and one was even colored similarly to a male lion, with a red ruff around his neck like a mane, his mate the soft tawny color of a lioness.
Quickly snapping pictures, the scientist gathered fur samples, blood samples, and mouth swabs from each one. Then presented the pictures and samples to his team.
This time, when discovering the genetic makeup, the team did not dismiss it. Instead they observed the animals in the habitat, watching as they would remain in the trees for a few hours, ignoring the meat left out by keepers, and instead pouncing on birds that made the mistake of landing in their habitat and eating them instead. Each of the females made a den, and began staying in there, and the males took them food.
A month or two after the females took to the dens, they emerged with colorful balls of fluff that were in fact, pups. Some looked like normal wolves, while others looked like just about any large cat coloration one could imagine.
One Scientist wrote:
“The wolves proved to be a very tightly knit group when it came to raising the pups. We only wished we would have had an opportunity to observe these creatures in the wild, as they were starting to adapt to zoo life, thus we truly did not know how they would hunt large game as a pack. Perhaps we can arrange an expedition into Mexico to try and find another pack. I would also recommend checking out the rainforests of the world, anywhere with both wild canids and large felines are native.”
After a few denials, the grant was given for small expeditions to all rainforests as well as large forests. It took a few trips, but soon packs of fifteen to twenty animals were found, living in communities in each location. The scientists quickly learned that Agile Wolves worked on both branches and the ground, taking large prey down from above and below.
One of the packs, found in the Bengal Forests, were even more unique than one would imagine. Thanks to the varying colors of the wolf genes, their feline genes gave them tiger stripes, and they varied in color from traditional orange tiger and brown wolf colors, to Maltese blues.
One female, a Maltese blue, was mated to one that resembled a panther, soon whelped a litter of pups, and in order to track growth of wild Agile Wolves, the pack was tranquilized and tagged with trackers after they were measured and weighed, while the pups were weighed, measured, tagged, as well as microchipped so their growth could be properly monitored.
The same was done with other litters in other packs.