maya – Jun 24, 2004 12:00 AM

Maya is 50 days old today. Throughout the early morning hours, Maya seemed very tired as she had slept throught most of the morning. Following one of the morning programs, the pups stopped over at a deer carcass which was thawing for the retired wolves. Maya was tugging at the deer's ears and had a few aggressive dominance interactions with Grizzer over posession of the carcass. Nyssa was also very aggressive with Maya around the deer carcass. Because of all the early morning excitement, the pups slept a great deal during the afternoon hours. As the pups get older, they become harder to measure. A pups weight is much more indicative of health than body length. To avoid negatively conditioning them to the process, Staff decided to measure body lengths on Mondays and Thursdays only and weigh once a day on the night shift.