Truck, plane, backpack: Inside the extreme effort to save Mexican wolves
From The Washington Post:
ABOVE THE GILA NATIONAL FOREST, N.M. — In a private plane soaring 26,000 feet over pine-swathed mountains, three tawny Mexican wolf pups slept. Their weight was less than three pounds each, their 10-day-old eyes still screwed shut. Their worth, as some of the newest members of a critically endangered species, was immeasurable.
The pups were protected by a soft pet carrier and kept toasty — 78 degrees, an attached thermometer indicated — by hand warmers wrapped in a towel. They were flanked by a veterinarian and a zookeeper, chaperones for this leg of a precisely choreographed operation.
