malik – Aug 16, 2005 12:00 AM

The males of the Exhibit pack are demonstrating some interesting behaviors. There appears to be a lot of close observations as the the vulnerability of the other males. When there's a chance to display some dominance, they take it. Grizzer takes his turn on Malik and Malik in turn looks for Shadow's weaknesses. During a recent feeding program, Shadow was showing a little intimidation towards the large crowd at the window. He held his body posture low, and appeared a bit submissive with the camera flashes through the window. Malik took the opportunity to actively drive Shadow away from the deer carcass. It appears that Shadow was able to eat later in the evening, as his belly was full and a fair amount of the deer was gone, but staff are very congnitive of the situations that make Shadow vulnerable to a Malik dominance display.