grizzer – Nov 19, 2007 12:00 AM

A student recently contacted the Center and inquired about the wolves jaw capacity to break open a coconut. We’re always encouraging scientific discovery as long as it doesn’t negatively impact the wolves. So, we tried it and we discovered, although wolves have the jaw capacity to break open a moose bone, which is obviously harder than a coconut, the coconut is too wide to get good leverage with their molars (that teeth closest to the jaw joint). Without the leverage of their temporal muscles, the wolves did nothing more than stare and roll the coconut. Grizzer continues to be more subdued in his testing behavior, but clearly takes his number two role seriously. In his video this week, you will see him standing with Shadow on top of the den watching the activity in the parking lot