Does this guy look familiar? This is one of our wolf brothers, 1390, who lived here awhile ago- from December 19, 2005- September 29, 2008. He was transferred on September 29, 2008. He left here to go to Sandy Ridge, a captive holding area that’s part of Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge. The Wildlife Biologists at ARNWR have started their own Blog (I snatched this photo from their blog to share with you) about the wolves and the goings on out their way.Read more
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Quik QuikPost:Wolf howling recording
Just adding some audio so you can listen to the wolf howling Marilyn mentioned. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXvZTWhe7xU[/youtube] The PBS show Nova has a page devoted to wolf howling with some more recordings.Read more
QuikPost: Update on our female red wolf part 2
Our female red wolf has been in estrous now for over a week. Unfortunately, the keepers have not seen any mating interactions between the male and the female. There seem to be some differences from last year, as well. For instance, the male chased the female around quite a bit last year while she was in estrous. But I have not heard any other keepers mention that they have seen him chasing her this year. Just today, Cassidy played aRead more
QuikPost: Update on our female red wolf
It looks like our girl went into estrous today! I saw her this morning with what looked to be some blood underneath her tail. It’s pretty remarkable that she started on February 9th/10th of last year, and she’s only a couple days off this year. Talk about having a regular schedule! We will keep you posted on the male and female interactions for the next few weeks.Read more
The time is near!
I’ve been pretty excited recently over the growing anticipation of red wolf breeding season. I’ve been watching our female, #1227, closely for early signs of her being in estrous. So far nothing yet, but last year we saw the first signs in late January and early February when the male started to show more interest in her. She actually went into estrous last year on February 10th, so hopefully we are less than two weeks away! Our beautiful pair ofRead more
QuikPost: female red wolf…Issues again.
The Keepers noticed some blood on our female red wolf yesterday. (#1227) If you look closely you can see some blood on her chest. She is acting totally fine and we don’t notice anything today. Since she is acting fine, we’ll wait until Monday and have our Vet, Dr Vanderford, check her out. Seems like something is always going on with our girl! Click here to read about her and our wolves’ physicals this past October.Read more