malik – Sep 3, 2007 12:00 AM

Malik continues to be the low ranking wolf with the high ranking tail. Whenever possible, Malik approaches the other wolves with a high tail showing his willingness for a higher ranking status. Most of the time, Shadow shows no concern over this posture and ignores him, whereas Grizzer sees this as something to address. Fortunately for Malik, Grizzer’s follow through is lacking. Generally, Grizzer chases Malik a few times around the pond and over the logs, and then stops to interact with Maya or rest on the greeting rock. Malik stays on the other end of the enclosure for a while, and then repeats his higher ranking tail. This arrangement seems to work for this group of males. In this week’s image, Malik displays a sign of status by scraping the ground after doing defecation.