lakota – Apr 22, 2005 12:00 AM

Sorry for the delay in posting logs, staff have been doing spring cleanup in the Exhibit pack including cleaning the deer hair from the pond drain. Lakota has had a good week, especially now that the weather is cooler. Last weekend (4/15) temperatures neared 80 degrees and the dense winter coat of the wolves made them very uncomfortable. Wolves have evolved to have the long permanent guard hairs the determines the color of their pelage and the dense thick undercoat that they shed in the spring. They do not have sweat glands like humans, so their mechanism for cooling themselves is to remain inactive and to pant, attempting to evaporate heat off their tongue.