From The News & Observer:
A family of red wolves was released into the wild in North Carolina, giving new hope to an endangered species. Video captured the moments when two parents and a couple of their cute babies roamed onto a refuge for the first time as a family, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Red Wolf Recovery Program.
From Association of Zoos and Aquariums:
On 27 April, seven Mexican wolf puppies were born at Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill. One male pup remains at the Zoo, while on 6 May, the other six puppies—four males and two females—were placed in wild Mexican wolf dens as part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services’ Mexican Wolf Recovery Program.
From Kare11 News:
Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? Spawning fish…apparently.
From The Madras Pioneer:
Within the past few weeks, a wolf or wolves have killed two calves owned by one rancher. The rancher wishes to remain anonymous. His ranch straddles county lines. One of the calves died in Deschutes County, the other in Jefferson County.
This is the first confirmed livestock kill in Jefferson County by a wolf since wolves started recolonizing Northeast Oregon more than a decade ago.
From Axios De Moines:
Ancient DNA of sheep and wolves are among the latest animal remains being researched by a Des Moines University scientist who’s been exploring Natural Trap Cave (NTC) in Wyoming for nearly a decade.
Why it matters: The work may help unravel mysteries about animal survival through evolution during the Ice Age.
From West News Magazine:
A constant stream of howling emanated from the second row as soon as Regina Mossotti’s name was announced at the TEDxStLouis presentation on May 13. It was fitting, given that her talk was titled “Who is Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”
“Raise your hand if you’ve ever seen a movie or read a story with a big, bad wolf in it?” Mossotti, former Director of Animal Care and Conservation at the Endangered Wolf Center (EWC), asked the audience. She then shared how movies perpetuate a negative image of wolves, showing them as scary animals, snarling and often covered with blood. She said those images portray the wolf as something to be feared, and if we fear something, we don’t want to save it.
From MPR News:
In the spring of 2017, University of Minnesota graduate researcher Tom Gable had a rare, surreal and as it turns out, fortuitous encounter with a wolf while he was tromping through the thick, swampy woods of far northern Minnesota.
He knew a wolf that researchers had outfit with a GPS tracking collar had been spending time in the area. As he approached, he spotted it splashing in a creek, only 30 feet away. So he quickly hid behind some shrubs, pulled out his iPhone and videoed the scene.
From Channel 3000 / News 3 Now:
Johnson, Republican colleagues reintroduce bill to remove federal protections for gray wolves
From 11 Eyewitness News:
Two families of red wolves are roaming free in eastern North Carolina.
According to the red wolf recovery program, the two families were released into separate areas of the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in Tyrrell County.
One family consists of a wild female red wolf, fostered from the Akron Zoo, paired in an acclimation pen with a captive-born male red wolf from the Endangered Wolf Center in Eureka, Missouri, along with their three pups.
The second family is a captive-born female and male red wolf pair, along with their year-old female pup from the Endangered Wolf Center and four pups that were born in the spring.
From Crow River Media:
Seven Mexican wolf puppies were born at Brookfield Zoo in Chicago on 27 April 2023, but only one of the males will emerge from their den as the other six puppies have gone on a remarkable journey back into the wild. On 6 May the other pups —four males and two females—were flown to Arizona and placed in wild Mexican wolf dens as part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services’ Mexican Wolf Recovery Program.
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