Wandering Mexican gray wolf Asha, now with pups and mate, set for release
From SantaFeNewMexican.com:
Asha, a wayfaring Mexican gray wolf who was captured twice in Northern New Mexico and returned to the subspecies’ restricted experimental population area south of Interstate 40, recently set her sights on a new horizon: motherhood.
The endangered wolf, officially known as F2754, gave birth to her first litter of five pups May 8 in captivity at the Sevilleta Wolf Management Facility near Socorro, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced.