malik – Dec 22, 2008 12:00 AM

Malik continues to act very nervous around Grizzer. The lack of dominance from Grizzer probably makes Malik anxious about his status. Dominance rituals are important in the pack, so every wolf knows their rank. Uncertainty makes wolves nervous, and that's the response we're seeing in Malik. Malik did a face bite to Grizzer last Monday, and still, Grizzer didn't assert his dominance. For Malik's sake, we are increasing the amount of Enclosure Enrichments to keep the focus off of rank order and on to other stimuli. We did two enclosure enrichments last week, one was scent based that resulted in scent rolling behavior, the other was food based that stimulated the wolves to search and find treats. A YouTube video showing both enclosure enrichment activities will be posted.