Grizzer – Strong Communication With Malik

As we observed Malik and studied the surveillance cameras, we did identify a strong connection between Malik and Grizzer with several howling bouts between them in the last week.  This was very unusual in many ways.  Malik rarely started howls in retirement, he usually responded to Shadow’s howling.  But, starting on Monday night the 17th, we saw a daily/evening pattern of Grizzer facing retirement and howling in response to Malik.  These howls were not the dominant,  high tail, posturing howls that Grizzer usually displayed when facing Malik, but were the subuded, low throated tones of an animal after a change or a loss of packmate.  Maybe Grizzer new things before humans did.