aidan – Jan 22, 2010 12:00 AM

Aidan has been far more active throughout the enclosure, still soliciting greetings from Shadow, and tolerating Denali's ever present testing. We have also observed him interacting with Grizzer, and despite Maya's diligence on keeping Aidan lower ranking, Aidan does follow Maya from the den. Staff also observed a very interesting behavior, while Maya and Shadow were walking the fence line by Malik, Aidan came down to the front of the enclosure and did a flexed leg urination in the straw where Shadow usually marks. Then scraped the ground in a confident marking behavior, and trotted back up the hill. Denali and Grizzer were watching the whole event and didn't approach or overmark. There may be more status in this wolf's future.