maya – Jun 22, 2009 12:00 AM

With summer brings heat, humidity, large crowds and various forms of stimuli for the wolves. During the Canine Cousins program today, the stimulus of two visiting dogs (belonging to Assistant Curator Donna Prichard) instigated a pack rally led by Shadow. When the dogs arrived for the program, Maya ran up to the fence line and whined, then joined in the pack rally initiated by Shadow. Following the rally, Maya asserted dominance over Aidan by chasing him up the hill into the woods. She returned almost immediately and seemed to alternate between curiosity and distance as she approached the fence line and then sought cover in the woods, returning to the fence line again.