maya – Jul 24, 2004 12:00 AM

Today Maya is 80 days old. Maya seemed very irritable with wolf care staff. On several occasions she bared her teeth and snapped at staff, which is abnormal behavior for Maya. Generally Maya is very submissive with staff. When she greeted Malik and Shadow she was very submissive to them. When Shadow approached her she laid on back and urinated on a rock. Also, when Malik and Shadow began to howl Maya ran up to the fence and joined in on the howl. Grizzer and Nyssa were showing dominant behavior over Maya today as well. Both of her littermates chased her around the pen as Maya was showing a tucked tail position.