denali – Jan 19, 2009 12:00 AM

The wolves did well with the recent cold snap last week. Wolf care faced temperatures of – 39 below on 2 mornings, – 32 below on one morning and a warm spell of – 26 below and Friday's balmy – 16 below… The wolf care staff are here 7 days a week, 365 days a year to ensure that the wolves have the best care possible. Denali is turning out to be a young version of Grizzer. When Grizzer was a pup, he was famous for jumping on people's backs to get attention. Denali is like a spring board when he wants attention. Of course, Grizzer turned out alright, so staff will continue to discourage this behavior and show Denali the proper way to greet a wolf care staff. Denali is very relaxed around the snowblower and all the tools necessary to keep this wolf yard open. We are having a plentiful amount of snow and Denali has learned to climb on the retired enclosure camera platform. We have since removed it to keep him out of trouble. The Exhibit Pack is still allowed access into the Retired Enclosure every week to keep it familiar to the next set of retirees, and to give wolf care staff some time to do work in the Exhibit Pack without the help of Denali.