malik – Dec 23, 2011 12:00 AM

We've had some good visits with Malik who is generally more reserved with staff. As long as Shadow gets to greet first, Malik can spend some time interacting. There seems to be a pattern to their interactions as well. When wolf care staff are not in the enclosure, the surveillance cameras reveal two wolves who frequently sleep in the den together. But when staff are interacting, Shadow keeps Malik away, which prompts Malik to do some posturing. If you change the names of the wolves from Malik and Shadow to Denali and Aidan, the behaviors would be the same. I know Aidan and Shadow were very social, you have to wonder if this isn't something Aidan picked up from his former pack leader.