lucas – Aug 15, 2000 12:00 AM

A Moose leg was brought into the enclosure to provide stimulus for the pups and remained a focus of activity for Lucas, Malik and Shadow. Lucas had the leg to begin with and Malik tried to acquire it. At 11:20 pm, Shadow and Malik had the leg after Lucas wandered off. Malik and Shadow began aggressively guarding the leg from one another with Malik being the aggressor. After about 7 minutes, Lucas took the leg back from Malik with no conflict. At 11:30 Malik approached Lucas for the leg and Lucas barked making Malik submissively roll over. Again at 11:45 Malik approached Lucas with the Moose leg at which time he was able to tug at a piece of the leg and remove a chunk. This continued until about midnight when Lucas allowed Malik to walk away with the whole Moose leg. Mackenzie and Shadow slept through the entire event.