My wife Sandy, also a lover of big science words, passed along this month’s feature. Fimicolous is an adjective formed from Latin roots that mean “to inhabit dung” and is used to describe organisms that live in, on, and with animal waste. As animal keepers we spend a lot of time dealing with poop and you might be amazed at all the living things that utilize poop. Perhaps most famous are the dung beetles, a group of scarab beetles thatRead more
Posts filed in: Wolves
Yet one more hurdle
As much as I love red wolves, Sherry often times sends me updates on the happenings inside the red wolf Species Survival Plan and Recovery Program. Sometimes she sends me good news about the breeding program, or maybe just cute pictures of our wolves like the one below. But recently she sent me an email about a news release that was disturbing. The release discussed the increase of a reward to anyone who has information about two missing red wolves.Read more
Fostering red wolf pups
I posted about red wolf pups earlier in May and I mentioned that two red wolf pups were fostered to the wild. To read about it, click here, or on the link below. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/05/24/1454230/red-wolf-pups-go-into-the-wildRead more
Red Wolf Pups
Nope, non here, again 🙁 But aren’t they cute. These two males were born at a sister red wolf SSP institution. Learn more about these little guys (born May 6, 2010) by going to the NY Wolf Center’s Blog. It’s hard to resist sharing baby pictures. To date, in the captive population there have been 6 litters born- 24 pups. Thus far only 15 pups have survived. 2 pups have already been fostered to the wild den with the Kilkenny Pack.Read more
Red Wolf Recovery Program: Quarterly Report
Since Marilyn just wrote about acronyms and the red wolf program, I thought I would share the following with you, in case you want to learn what’s going on with the RWRP (Red Wolf Recovery Program) directly from the Red Wolf Recovery Program Coordinator? The link below will take you to the 10 page report that is released quarterly. In the report you can learn about the program objectives, the packs of red wolves that live in the wild, researchRead more