lakota – Aug 15, 2002 12:00 AM

8-15-02 Lakota Incident Report On the morning of August 15, 2002, at around 6 a.m. the Forest Service men came in to work. One of these men went up to the Observation windows around 6:45 to observe the wolves through the windows as he usually does. He said that the wolves don't usually pay any attention to him when he comes up to the window but this morning he noticed that Lakota (the omega female) was cowering close to the windows in a corner with her tail tucked. There was blood around her ear and neck area. When the Arctic wolves would come near her she would scoot closer to the window. Lucas was lying down away from the other wolves seemingly uninterested. When he looked closer, he noticed blood on the rock and on the window like she was trying to get out. He then went back down to the Service Area and called Assistant Director, Gretchen Diessner. This bite must have occurred between 6:30 – 6:45 am, since Curator Lori Schmidt had been on site and had checked on all wolves observing no injuries. Lori Schmidt was scheduled to be off site until 8:30 am. Andrea Lorek Strauss came in around 7:30 am to take a look and she noticed that Lakota was tucked deeply in the corner cautious of the Arctic wolves. "The Arctic wolves milled about and lay down near the greeting rock". Malik had blood on the tip of his fur under his neck. She also noticed that there was blood on the window and pooling with the rain on the rock. She also observed trauma but that the Arctic wolves seemed to be leaving Lakota alone.