malik – May 18, 2008 12:00 AM

Malik seems a bit indifferent about the pups. While Shadow and Maya are clearly social, licking, smelling, whining at the pups through the fence when wolf care staff work on the socialization process, Malik is going about his business and approaches the pups at the fence, but doesn’t have the same response as the other pack members. This isn’t unusual, it was Shadow who took the lead role in the 2004 pup introduction, but it does impact how the introduction will be structured. Malik and Grizzer have very few dominance issues these days, it might be higher levels of Prolactin stimulated by the pups or it might be the approaching summer season, regardless, it’s very quiet here.