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<strong>Wolf</strong><strong>Park</strong>.org<br />
Summer 2008<br />
<strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong> is a not for profit<br />
organization dedicated to<br />
improving the lives of wolves<br />
in captivity and in the wild<br />
through behavioral research<br />
and education.<br />
<strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong> was founded by<br />
Erich Klinghammer, Ph.D, Director<br />
in 1972.<br />
<strong>Farewell</strong> <strong>Socrates</strong><br />
by Pat Goodmann<br />
<strong>Socrates</strong> was born to<br />
Altair and Chinook on<br />
April 9, 1993. Though<br />
both his parents were<br />
black, <strong>Socrates</strong> wound up<br />
with the gray-brown color<br />
more typical of wolves. It<br />
made him the stand-out<br />
pup in his litter – the only<br />
light colored one in a<br />
passel of black pups.<br />
He inherited Chinook’s temper<br />
and tendency to solve his<br />
problems by biting. He didn’t<br />
like being restrained by<br />
humans. Once, while he<br />
gnawed a chewy at the end of a<br />
wolf - bison demonstration, he<br />
warned me not to put a leash on<br />
him. I thought I could get away<br />
with leashing him anyway. Then<br />
I thought one of his teeth might<br />
go through my hand. In the<br />
following weeks, I spent a lot of<br />
interactions knitting our relationship<br />
back together.<br />
He didn’t like being restrained<br />
by wolves anymore than he<br />
liked being restrained by<br />
humans. When <strong>Socrates</strong> was a<br />
young pup, Chinook came<br />
behind him and put his mouth<br />
over Tease’s shoulders.<br />
Chinook’s jaws almost met<br />
around <strong>Socrates</strong>’ little chest.<br />
<strong>Socrates</strong>’ eyes grew huge;<br />
he shuddered, and then,<br />
enraged, attacked Chinook.<br />
“DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT<br />
AGAIN!” <strong>Socrates</strong> seemed to<br />
be telling Chinook.<br />
During his first September,<br />
<strong>Socrates</strong> got hold of a butcher<br />
knife accidentally dumped out of<br />
a wheelbarrow<br />
along with a<br />
carcass for the<br />
pack’s dinner. He<br />
ran around with the<br />
knife point forward,<br />
greeting caretaker<br />
Joe <strong>Wolf</strong> and me. It<br />
was a thrilling few<br />
minutes, straight out<br />
of a Far Side cartoon,<br />
until we disarmed him<br />
before he hurt himself<br />
or stabbed someone.<br />
Through their first winter the<br />
Tease and his littermate Kiri<br />
were particularly rowdy. It wasn’t<br />
that they never “asked nicely”<br />
for what they wanted (they<br />
sometimes did); it was that they<br />
wanted things we could not, in<br />
good conscience, give them—<br />
like a small, passive, practicum<br />
student. Tease and Kiri<br />
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From The Director...<br />
Dr. Erich Klinghammer<br />
Isle Royale, an island in Lake<br />
Superior, is the place where<br />
Dr. Durward Allen of Purdue<br />
University began his research<br />
project on the ecology of wolves<br />
back in 1958. Wolves had<br />
crossed over the ice from<br />
Canada to reach this island.<br />
Dr. Rolf Peterson was a student<br />
in my ethology class at Purdue<br />
University. He did a month-long<br />
study of the wolf pack at the<br />
Brookfield Zoological <strong>Park</strong> near<br />
Chicago, Illinois. At that time we<br />
had our first two wolves at <strong>Wolf</strong><br />
<strong>Park</strong>, Koko and Cassie, and<br />
Rolf and I worked with them.<br />
The Isle Royale wolf study was<br />
a unique natural experiment, an<br />
enclosed ecosystem with<br />
predator and prey. Dr. Allen’s<br />
students assisted with the<br />
research, beginning with Dave<br />
Mech and ending with Rolf<br />
Peterson, and many in between.<br />
When Dr. Peterson retired a few<br />
years ago his assistant, Dr.<br />
John Vucetich, took over the<br />
project, though Dr. Peterson is<br />
still involved.<br />
In 1968 I came to Purdue<br />
University, when I met and<br />
became a colleague and friend<br />
of Dr. Allen, a professor in the<br />
wildlife department. In February<br />
of 1969 he took me to Isle<br />
Royale where Rolf Peterson<br />
was collecting his data for his<br />
Ph.D. research on wolves and<br />
moose. The winter research<br />
lasted from January to March<br />
for ten weeks each year. During<br />
the summer moose carcasses<br />
not examined in the winter were<br />
sought out and studied.<br />
Soon after arriving on the<br />
island, Don Murray, the pilot of<br />
the single- engine, two-seater<br />
Champ landed. I exchanged<br />
places with Rolf, and we were<br />
off to observe a pack of wolves<br />
on the ice along the south shore<br />
of the island. Don flew about<br />
15 feet above the ice and about<br />
40 feet from the wolf pack. They<br />
were so used to the plane that<br />
they showed no reaction to its<br />
presence. I remember seeing<br />
the black alpha male and the<br />
foxy-headed female who had a<br />
limp on her left fore-leg. The<br />
low-ranking wolves found a<br />
moose who just stood between<br />
two trees. The moose did not<br />
move and the wolves moved on.<br />
The alpha pair ignored the<br />
moose. She was in estrus and<br />
he was attending her.<br />
I stayed a week, and had many<br />
memorable experiences with Dr.<br />
Allen, Rolf and Don. I tracked a<br />
moose and found him resting in<br />
the forest and took his picture.<br />
The last weekend in July 2008<br />
there was a celebration of the<br />
50th anniversary of the wolf<br />
research on Isle Royale. For<br />
health reasons I could not<br />
attend the festivities. However,<br />
staff member Monty Sloan and<br />
volunteer Tom O’Dowd<br />
represented <strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong>, and<br />
presented a donation of $1000<br />
from <strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong> to the research<br />
program. More information on<br />
the event is in this issue on<br />
page 9 of this newsletter.<br />
You may remember that<br />
Dr. Doug Smith, who is in<br />
charge of the wolf research in<br />
Yellowstone National <strong>Park</strong>,<br />
got his start at <strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong> as<br />
a puppy mother about twenty<br />
years ago. From here he went<br />
to Isle Royale and worked<br />
under Dr. Peterson, which gave<br />
Doug some of the valuable<br />
experience that made him an<br />
excellent candidate to work on<br />
the Yellowstone wolf project.<br />
Thus, we at <strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong> study<br />
captive wolves, but we have<br />
close ties with the field research<br />
on Isle Royale and Yellowstone<br />
National <strong>Park</strong>.<br />
If you really want to learn about<br />
wolves, spend some time at<br />
<strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong> observing our wolves<br />
up close, and then when you go<br />
to Yellowstone and watch them<br />
in the wild from afar, you have a<br />
sense of what you are seeing.<br />
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Linda Thurston and<br />
Nathan Varley Visit <strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong><br />
On July 8 wolf experts<br />
Linda Thurston and<br />
Nathan Varley visited <strong>Wolf</strong><br />
<strong>Park</strong>. Linda has taught wolf<br />
behavior seminars with our<br />
own Pat Goodmann at the<br />
Yellowstone Institute. Linda<br />
and Nathan are professional<br />
wildlife biologists who live<br />
outside Yellowstone National<br />
<strong>Park</strong>. They have a business<br />
called the Yellowstone <strong>Wolf</strong><br />
Tracker, and they act as guides<br />
for visitors to the Yellowstone<br />
ecosystem, helping them learn<br />
about and view wildlife,<br />
especially wolves.<br />
They have real live wild wolves<br />
where they live, which naturally<br />
means they don’t normally get<br />
the chance to see wolves closer<br />
than about a mile. So… we<br />
introduced them to our pack.<br />
After they were good and<br />
muddy from the wolves greeting<br />
them, Nathan and Linda gave a<br />
talk about what’s happening in<br />
the Northern Rockies for our<br />
staff, volunteers and interns. It’s<br />
great to get information from the<br />
people who live and work there.<br />
It’s a different perspective from<br />
the news reporters who don’t<br />
Delisting Halted<br />
On July 18 the delisting of the<br />
wolves in the Northern Rockies<br />
Distinct Population Segment<br />
was overturned. This includes<br />
the wolves living in Montana,<br />
Idaho, Wyoming, and parts of<br />
several neighboring states.<br />
U.S. District Judge Donald<br />
Molloy granted a preliminary<br />
injunction reversing the delisting<br />
of wolves while the entire case<br />
is being heard and also said the<br />
plaintiffs were likely to succeed<br />
in a majority of their claims. He<br />
said that a coalition of environmental<br />
groups was accurate in<br />
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have the<br />
biology<br />
background.<br />
Here are the people who are<br />
actually doing the research that<br />
the others are reporting on.<br />
Linda and Nathan talked about<br />
how wolves are giving a great<br />
economic boost to the region<br />
surrounding Yellowstone due to<br />
the increase in tourism. They<br />
also talked a lot about what is<br />
being done to mitigate conflict<br />
between wolves and humans,<br />
and about research being<br />
conducted on the effects of<br />
wolves on the ecosystem.<br />
Thank you Linda and Nathan,<br />
we look forward to seeing<br />
you again!<br />
To learn more about our<br />
guests, go to their web site:<br />
www.wolftracker.com.<br />
its concerns regarding the long<br />
term survival of this newly<br />
recovered population, and that<br />
the wolves were being put in<br />
jeopardy under the management<br />
of these states.<br />
The ruling stated that the U.S.<br />
Fish and Wildlife Service acted<br />
in an arbitrary and capricious<br />
manner when it removed wolves<br />
in the Northern Rockies Region<br />
from the endangered species<br />
list in March 2008.<br />
For more details, go to the<br />
Defenders of Wildlife web site,<br />
www.defenders.org.
Main Pack Updates<br />
by Pat Goodmann<br />
Tristan continues to invite new<br />
people to scratch him, and to<br />
ride herd on the boys and<br />
Kailani. He would like to go on<br />
more wolf-bison demonstrations,<br />
but at his age, ten, we are<br />
reluctant to put him in the field<br />
with young bison who are<br />
frankly looking for wolves to<br />
trample flat. At home, all the<br />
wolves show deference toward<br />
him but when he intervenes in<br />
ritualized fights among the boys,<br />
he must wade right in and<br />
usually push them, swat them or<br />
put his mouth on them before<br />
they break off doing unto each<br />
other and submit to Tris.<br />
<strong>Wolf</strong>gang has been dealing<br />
with questions from Wotan,<br />
such as “How come you’re<br />
number 2? What makes you so<br />
great? Huh? Huh? Huh?” So far<br />
he has been able to give<br />
definitive answers to those<br />
questions, though Wotan has<br />
not given up asking them.<br />
For the time being, Monty foiled<br />
<strong>Wolf</strong>gang’s attempts at pickpocketry<br />
with a new bait bag<br />
which actually stays closed.<br />
Ruedi and <strong>Wolf</strong>gang have both<br />
Kailani<br />
tried unsuccessfully to open it.<br />
Now they will have to work<br />
honestly for a living.<br />
Kailani has been allowed some<br />
brief drive-bys with volunteers<br />
with whom she hadn’t had<br />
contact for weeks or months,<br />
and also allowed very brief<br />
periods of greeting seminarians<br />
and then quickly sent to pose<br />
on the root ball or led off to<br />
enjoy “spa time” in the holding<br />
pen. She is still too prone to<br />
threaten newbies, and maybe<br />
some oldbies, to be taken off the<br />
restricted contact list though.<br />
Also we have noticed that the<br />
males are more relaxed and<br />
genial when Miss Demeanor is<br />
off having “spa time.”<br />
Ruedi and Renki are still the<br />
lowest ranking members of the<br />
pack. For some reason Renki<br />
wound up in Kailani’s bad<br />
graces. She will occasionally<br />
rush in and pinch him hard<br />
when he is down; formerly she<br />
reserved this treatment for<br />
Wotan alone. When Ruedi and<br />
Renki are in the pack, Ruedi<br />
appears to be dominant, but he<br />
seldom throws his weight<br />
around. When they have a play<br />
date together with Ayla, Renki<br />
can dominate Ruedi.<br />
We have seen very little of<br />
Renki’s alter ego, Binky, this<br />
spring, but the Binkster made a<br />
fast cameo appearance in June<br />
when Renki had been resting<br />
contentedly with Gale in a<br />
narrow strip of shade along the<br />
fence. Kailani spoiled the little<br />
Peaceable Kingdom tableau by<br />
dragging Sunday dinner, a small<br />
calf, up on Gale’s other side.<br />
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While Kailani ate, unworried by<br />
Gale’s proximity to the calf,<br />
Renki’s eyes hardened. He did<br />
not get up but he began to<br />
pinch and mouth Gale’s hand<br />
and arm, suggesting that she<br />
leave because if she stayed<br />
near the calf he’d get mad, and<br />
she wouldn’t<br />
like him<br />
mad. Gale,<br />
aware that<br />
he was<br />
implying<br />
there would<br />
be a transformation,<br />
shortly, from<br />
cuddly<br />
Renki, to<br />
“Hulk<br />
smash!” did<br />
not answer<br />
directly. She simply beckoned<br />
<strong>Wolf</strong>gang over. <strong>Wolf</strong>gang<br />
sauntered up and, without<br />
even looking at Renki, stood<br />
over him and enjoyed a nice<br />
greeting with Gale. Renki’s<br />
facial expression changed<br />
with comic rapidity: from<br />
Tyranosaurus Renks (my,<br />
what big teeth he has!) to<br />
Binky, in the space of a heart<br />
beat and an eye blink. Binky,<br />
excels at looking puppyish and<br />
endearing and I wondered if<br />
he might suck on Gale’s finger,<br />
while busy looking sweet<br />
and harmless!<br />
<strong>Wolf</strong>gang<br />
Tristan<br />
Renki (Above)<br />
Wotan (Left)<br />
Ruedi (Below)<br />
Birth<br />
Name Sex Year<br />
Tristan Male 1998<br />
Kailani Female 2004<br />
Renki Male 2004<br />
Ruedi Male 2004<br />
<strong>Wolf</strong>gang Male 2005<br />
Wotan Male 2005
Our East Lake Wolves<br />
Kiri lost <strong>Socrates</strong>, his<br />
brother and constant<br />
companion since they<br />
were together in the womb.<br />
<strong>Socrates</strong> died, without<br />
euthanasia, in the same pen<br />
with Kiri. Kiri had<br />
undoubtedly discovered his<br />
brother’s body before we did,<br />
and came to what ever understanding<br />
he was able to reach.<br />
When we removed <strong>Socrates</strong> he<br />
showed no further interest and<br />
just wanted his ears rubbed.<br />
With the passing of Tease, Kiri<br />
seems to be planning a debut<br />
as a social butterfly, with an<br />
expanded social circle.<br />
Echo’s hindquarters were<br />
strong enough for her to insist<br />
on a walk around the loup trail<br />
this spring. The day was<br />
hotter than ideal for an elderly<br />
lady wolf’s half mile excursion,<br />
but she discovered that the<br />
education building has air conditioning<br />
and she insisted on a<br />
rest break there. We let her<br />
literally cool her heels indoors<br />
until she indicated she was<br />
sufficiently refreshed and<br />
ready to resume her leisurely<br />
progress around the pond.<br />
Eclipse shed out rapidly<br />
thanks to Monty’s<br />
Revolution Rake with<br />
revolving tines. She<br />
enjoys scratches and<br />
ear rubs from familiar<br />
people. We have been<br />
able to get fly cream on<br />
her ears and give her<br />
vaccinations without<br />
problems. The interns<br />
are, as usual, trying their<br />
best to win her over.<br />
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With the advent of mowing season and wolf-bison demonstrations,<br />
Ayla’s play dates with Renki and Ruedi have increased. She enjoys<br />
hours of fun and companionship from her brothers when we mow<br />
the Turtle Lake Enclosure, while Renki and Ruedi seem highly<br />
pleased at having someone, anyone, submit to them. This year, a<br />
very bright bison-testing light bulb has gone on over Ayla’s head.<br />
To look at some of her efforts working the herd you would no<br />
believe that she had fewer chances to practice her skills than Renki<br />
or <strong>Wolf</strong>gang or Wotan.<br />
Like all the wolves we tried it on, Orca adored being raked<br />
with Monty's special dog rake. Under the influence of its two<br />
rows of revolving tines, he lost veritable continents of winter<br />
underwear. Sandy Prantl, the cranio sacral therapist worked<br />
on him in July and he let her do a great deal. When we<br />
though he was done he followed her, leaned into her, and<br />
begged for more work. It was both touching and comical. Now<br />
that it's mowing season he gets shifted out of his enclosure,<br />
either to one across the corridor or a holding pen a little<br />
farther away. He often has to be lured into the holding pen<br />
with a treat, such as a pig ear, but to move him across the<br />
corridor we just need to open gates to both pens and let him<br />
scurry. Orca is still trying to walk and his right hind<br />
leg is just not quite able to handle<br />
its assignment. But as long<br />
as he has food and<br />
friends Orca appears<br />
completely unfazed<br />
by being bipedal.
Karin is fat. She is also late to shed her winter coat. She looks like a critter with Cushings<br />
disease, but her blood work indicates that she does not have it. We are trying to diet her<br />
without making Apollo skinnier. Since she is far more interested in food than he, this is a<br />
challenge. So far, cutting back on carcass parts and hand feeding them Pet Botanicals<br />
through the fence merely demonstrated that Karin thinks just about anything is food, but<br />
Apollo, who does not need to diet, thinks this nice healthy food that most of the wolves like<br />
a lot, is not, in fact, edible.<br />
Miska and Marion are living<br />
across from the coyotes. They<br />
squabble with each other and<br />
occasionally threaten the<br />
coyotes, who are very<br />
interested when the Alphas<br />
squabble. Marion did very well<br />
on some cognitive testing by Dr.<br />
Wynne and his graduate<br />
students Monique and Nicole.<br />
Miska was invited not to take<br />
part after he pulled a testing<br />
apparatus apart.<br />
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Erin finally left her pretend puppies to their own devices. She stopped<br />
guarding places against us and Chetan is more willing to eat his pilllaced<br />
treat boluses himself instead of letting Erin have them. She has<br />
been letting us put fly repellent ointment on her ears, which helps<br />
protect the second tastiest set of wolf ears at the park from biting flies.<br />
Like the other wolves, both Fluffies like Monty’s Revolution Rake, for<br />
help in getting out of their winter underwear. Erin is taking a long time<br />
to shed and as of this writing the old, dried curled up guard hairs<br />
along the back of her neck and shoulders look like a dead permanent<br />
wave. Chetan shed out faster and though he has developed some hot<br />
spots they went away as soon as I told them I had a Vetalog shot<br />
waiting for Chetan if they did not dry up promptly and go away.
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attempted to pull her down and<br />
drag her around, hoping to push<br />
the “on” button, sure that she<br />
would squeak and run about for<br />
their entertainment if only they<br />
could find it.<br />
Though they did not find the<br />
student’s button, <strong>Socrates</strong><br />
decided deliberately intimidating<br />
new people was fun.<br />
Fortunately, he could be<br />
distracted easily; I often said<br />
he fluttered from one thing<br />
to another with the attention<br />
span of a cabbage butterfly.<br />
Distraction has its limits as a<br />
management tool, though so we<br />
were very grateful when board<br />
member Gladys Wright donated<br />
the price of a holding pen in<br />
which <strong>Socrates</strong> could be shut<br />
while we took new interns,<br />
volunteers, “seminarians,” and<br />
sponsors in with the rest of<br />
the pack.<br />
<strong>Socrates</strong> was skilled at forcing<br />
us to interact with him by doing<br />
things we could not afford to<br />
ignore. When we brought in<br />
buckets to clean the enclosure<br />
he tried to steal them. We<br />
countered by offering him wolf<br />
droppings “politely” in the clean<br />
up tongs. After backing up in<br />
disgust on many occasions, one<br />
day <strong>Socrates</strong> countered our<br />
move by just eating the scat<br />
when offered. Then he grinned.<br />
(Well, not really...)<br />
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The first time they saw their<br />
parents tie, Tease and Kiri<br />
displayed what looked like a<br />
touching concern, running back<br />
and forth between the alphas<br />
and the approaching humans,<br />
like Lassie guiding rescuers to<br />
little Timmy. (“Humans, humans,<br />
hurry up! Chinook and Altair are<br />
stuck! Help! Help!”) Once they<br />
had witnessed a mating or two<br />
though, their concern faded.<br />
<strong>Socrates</strong> pestered Altair<br />
incessantly, showing that inborn<br />
behavior can be supplemented<br />
and made more effective by an<br />
individual wolf’s learning. If<br />
<strong>Socrates</strong> had some instinctive,<br />
“theoretical” knowledge of what<br />
to do, until he had tried and<br />
failed repeatedly, he did not<br />
seem to understand that he<br />
could not join in while Chinook<br />
was currently tied with Altair. By<br />
the 1995 breeding season,<br />
however, <strong>Socrates</strong> understood<br />
the process. He and Kiri both<br />
mated with Karin on the day we<br />
think she conceived her litter.<br />
Because Chetan looks so much<br />
like <strong>Socrates</strong>, we all suspect<br />
that he, not Kiri, is Chetan’s<br />
biological father.<br />
In mid-October of 1993 we<br />
moved the pack into the new<br />
Turtle Lake enclosure and the<br />
wolves explored their palatial<br />
new home of almost seven<br />
acres. Because friends of the<br />
Klinghammers had fished in the<br />
pond for years, we searched the<br />
shore thoroughly for detritus<br />
before moving the wolves. A<br />
couple of weeks later, <strong>Socrates</strong><br />
was hunting small prey at a<br />
brush pile well back from the<br />
water when he suddenly reared<br />
up, screaming and pawing at his<br />
mouth—a fish hook and long<br />
metal lure were stuck in his lip.<br />
We called Tease into the<br />
“airlock,” and he seemed glad to<br />
see us, lying down and licking<br />
us as we gave him comforting<br />
tummy rubs. Every few minutes<br />
though, he became agitated and<br />
alternated between pawing at<br />
his mouth and mouthing my<br />
arm. Though injected with a<br />
tranquilizer someone had<br />
retrieved from the clinic, he still<br />
had to be held down while<br />
Dr. Klinghammer forced the<br />
hook all the way through his lip<br />
so the barbed tip could be cut<br />
off. <strong>Socrates</strong> bit Jill Moore quite<br />
hard through her gloves, but her<br />
hand was okay, and by evening,<br />
he was running around as if<br />
nothing had happened.<br />
After we lost Chinook to heart<br />
disease in the summer of 1996,<br />
Orca became alpha male. That<br />
summer, <strong>Socrates</strong>’ last with the<br />
main pack, was particularly
trying, partly because <strong>Socrates</strong><br />
had an inflated notion of how<br />
well we could protect him from<br />
Orca. Once, while I lectured<br />
visitors, <strong>Socrates</strong> came over<br />
and velcroed to me as Orca<br />
approached us. <strong>Socrates</strong> curled<br />
his lip and growled. Orca barely<br />
deigned to glance at Tease;<br />
instead, he grinned up at me<br />
and, turning abruptly, tamped<br />
<strong>Socrates</strong> into the fence with his<br />
rump before strutting off.<br />
Weeks later, we removed<br />
<strong>Socrates</strong> to East Lake, and he<br />
seemed to realize he was safe<br />
from Orca and the rest of the<br />
pack behind two layers of fence.<br />
“I’ve never seen a wolf stick its<br />
thumbs in its ears and wiggle its<br />
fingers at the other wolves<br />
before” remarked then<br />
managing director Gary<br />
Kyrouac. Upon <strong>Socrates</strong><br />
arrival, he and Vega<br />
immediately exchanged<br />
affectionate greetings<br />
through the fence and she<br />
allowed him to move right in.<br />
Dr. Klinghammer asked how<br />
they accepted each other. I<br />
told him that when we left<br />
they were measuring floor<br />
space and moving her<br />
furniture around so his would<br />
fit in too. Vega had explained<br />
to him that she was Queen<br />
of the World, and <strong>Socrates</strong><br />
was okay with that. Soon we<br />
moved Kiri to East Lake,<br />
changing the social<br />
dynamics. The boys,<br />
especially <strong>Socrates</strong>,<br />
sometimes picked on Vega, so<br />
she was not able to live with<br />
them full time. She did make it<br />
obvious when she wanted to get<br />
away from them, though, so<br />
they had sleep overs and tea<br />
parties, and—occasionally—<br />
long house parties, but were not<br />
a permanent trio.<br />
Even in retirement, <strong>Socrates</strong><br />
was a handful; had he lived<br />
alone, I think he would have<br />
likely contracted “alpha-itis”: a<br />
tendency to be dangerously<br />
domineering toward any human<br />
or wolf who enters the<br />
enclosure. Fortunately, Kiri was<br />
a benevolent dictator, and<br />
<strong>Socrates</strong> remained grateful for<br />
his human friends. When they<br />
were ten years old, their first<br />
puppy mother, Karin Bloch,<br />
went in with them. They had<br />
seen her through the fence<br />
every spring when she came<br />
back to raise subsequent litters.<br />
I think they remembered her,<br />
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because they seemed very<br />
happy to have her there, gently<br />
soliciting social grooming over<br />
and over.<br />
At twelve, <strong>Socrates</strong> visibly<br />
slowed down. All his life he had<br />
disliked injections, but when he<br />
had a severe bout of enteritis in<br />
the fall of 2006 we had to give<br />
him lots of subcutaneous and IV<br />
fluids, injectable antibiotics, and<br />
anti-nausea medication,<br />
because he could not even<br />
keep water down. He<br />
recovered, shaky, and his<br />
appetite slowly worked its way<br />
back to normal, but with an<br />
increased mellowness in the<br />
face of hypodermic needles. He<br />
was often gently affectionate,<br />
wanting to link forearms with<br />
human friends and lick faces.<br />
In his fight with cancer from the<br />
summer of 2006 to June 2007,<br />
<strong>Socrates</strong> displayed the<br />
toughness that marks wolves.<br />
He kept eating and taking an<br />
interest in life. The hardest part<br />
of taking care of <strong>Socrates</strong>, for<br />
me, was focusing on him, and<br />
how he felt, day by day, rather<br />
than simply thinking “his<br />
prognosis is poor so why not<br />
euthanize him now.” I knew that,<br />
eventually, this fight would end<br />
in the graveyard. But eventually<br />
everyone ends up in the<br />
graveyard, so we let <strong>Socrates</strong><br />
enjoy each day as it came. On<br />
some days he obviously did not<br />
feel well, but he came out of it<br />
and perked up. On his last day<br />
he approached the fence in the<br />
morning, eager for a hot dog<br />
treat, looking as if he was<br />
prepared to live indefinitely.<br />
Sometime in the afternoon he<br />
died, possibly in his sleep. In<br />
the end, the cantankerous old<br />
geezer went in his own time and<br />
in his own way.<br />
<strong>Socrates</strong> is survived by his<br />
brothers Kiri, Apollo, and Miska,<br />
his niece Marion, his cousin<br />
Echo, his former mate Karin, his<br />
probable son Chetan, and<br />
probable grandsons, <strong>Wolf</strong>gang<br />
and Wotan.<br />
Editor: Catherine Ozment
<strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong> Goes to Budapest<br />
by Monty Sloan<br />
The Canine Science<br />
Forum on dogs and<br />
related canids was held<br />
July 5-9, 2008 in<br />
Budapest, Hungary. The<br />
conference focused on<br />
current behavioral<br />
research conducted on<br />
wild canines as well as<br />
domesticated dogs.<br />
Dr. Raymond Coppinger,<br />
who conducts annual dog<br />
behavior seminars at <strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong>,<br />
has often bemoaned the fact<br />
that very little behavioral<br />
research was being conducted<br />
on one of the most accessible<br />
and common animals around<br />
us, the dog. That has started to<br />
change. In fact one of the talks<br />
at the conference addressed<br />
this very issue and showed how<br />
there has been a great increase<br />
in papers published on dog<br />
behavior and ethology over the<br />
past 10 years.<br />
The conference was opened by<br />
keynote speakers Adám Miklósi<br />
(with “Dogs and their people:<br />
Love is not enough!”) and Jane<br />
Packard (with “Man meets wolf:<br />
ethological perspectives”).<br />
Following the opening talks, the<br />
days were filled with a series of<br />
15 minute presentations on<br />
dogs, wolves, dingos, foxes,<br />
and then dogs again. At lunch<br />
there were also presentations<br />
which were less academic,<br />
ranging from “paragility” (dog<br />
agility training with physically<br />
challenged handlers) and dog<br />
dancing, to police dogs and<br />
even a socialized wolf from the<br />
Horatius Animal Coordination<br />
team (horkai.com).<br />
There were also many fun<br />
and interesting scientific posters<br />
at the conference. Monty<br />
presented “Long-Term Captive<br />
<strong>Wolf</strong> Socialization at <strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong>”,<br />
a poster he helped create with<br />
fellow staff members Pat, Gale<br />
and Holly, and which can be<br />
downloaded from wolfpark.org.<br />
This poster was not only<br />
informative, but beautifully put<br />
together by volunteer – and<br />
professional graphic designer –<br />
N. Beth Line. It attracted quite a<br />
lot of attention and positive<br />
comments from the participants<br />
at the conference.<br />
The days were long, but very<br />
well organized and with mostly<br />
short lectures, frequent coffee<br />
breaks (and they really know<br />
how to make great coffee over<br />
there) and a variety of entertainment.<br />
Many of the people were<br />
not the typical folks who<br />
frequent wolf conferences in the<br />
U.S. and Monty met and made<br />
contacts with scientists who<br />
showed a lot of interest in what<br />
we are doing at <strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong>,<br />
including the possibility for<br />
doing research.<br />
Thanks goes to one of our<br />
long time members and<br />
supporters, Dr. Nicola Osypka,<br />
who sponsored Monty’s trip to<br />
the conference.<br />
To learn more about the<br />
conference, go to their website:<br />
http://csf2008.elte.hu/<br />
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Interns, Practicums & Volunteers<br />
Every year, some extremely<br />
nice people descend at <strong>Wolf</strong><br />
<strong>Park</strong>, offering the most valuable<br />
of resources ~ their time.<br />
Volunteers visit for as little as a<br />
few hours a week to every day;<br />
practicums spend a month; and<br />
interns, generously donate three<br />
months of their time. In return,<br />
the <strong>Park</strong> provides them all with<br />
an unparalleled opportunity for<br />
both research and fun, as they<br />
interact with the <strong>Park</strong> wolves,<br />
give tours, do landscaping and<br />
repair, exhaust the library, and<br />
talk with the staff.<br />
Blaze Barry is an intern from<br />
Sewanee, Tennessee. He just<br />
completed his junior year at the<br />
University of Alabama,<br />
Huntsville where he is studying<br />
Biology. Blaze will pursue<br />
graduate studies in Animal<br />
Behavior. He has worked with<br />
animals both on a farm and<br />
private reserve. Blaze likes<br />
playing guitar and photography.<br />
Cynthia Fell, from Sharpsville,<br />
Pennsylvania, was with us from<br />
the middle of June to the middle<br />
of July for her second<br />
practicum. She is an 8th grade<br />
math teacher with an interest in<br />
wild life. Cynthia considers<br />
returning to college to study<br />
Wildlife Biology. She has years<br />
of experience working with<br />
animals on her grandparents<br />
farm. Cindy hopes to increase<br />
her knowledge of wolf behavior<br />
and the care of wolves while at<br />
<strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong>.<br />
Brinn Granger is from<br />
Indianapolis. She currently<br />
attends Hanover College in<br />
Madison, Indiana, and intends<br />
to apply to vet schools. Brinn<br />
has worked in a vet clinic for 3<br />
years and the Indianapolis Zoo<br />
the past two summers. She is<br />
exploring the possibility of<br />
working in a wildlife refuge or<br />
zoo upon graduation. Brinn<br />
hopes her internship at <strong>Wolf</strong><br />
<strong>Park</strong> will help with this decision.<br />
She likes to read and participate<br />
in youth mission trips.<br />
Tricia Kruse is also from<br />
Indianapolis. She graduated in<br />
May from Northland College in<br />
Wisconsin with a degree in<br />
Behavioral Psychology. Tricia<br />
has done an internship with us<br />
in the past and is here as a<br />
practicum doing a howl study.<br />
Her study compares and<br />
correlates the animals’ behavior<br />
before, during, and after a howl.<br />
Tricia hopes her observations<br />
help assist researchers in the<br />
field with their howl studies. She<br />
aspires to become a wildlife<br />
researcher, specifically with<br />
wolves.<br />
Jacob Levy is an intern from<br />
New York state, via Ashland,<br />
Wisconsin. He just finished his<br />
junior year at Northland College<br />
where he is pursuing a degree<br />
in Psychology with an emphasis<br />
on Animal Behavior and<br />
Motivational Sciences. Jacob<br />
volunteers at his local animal<br />
shelter training and caring for<br />
their animals. His long term<br />
goals are to work as an animal<br />
rehab specialist or a handler in<br />
a zoo. Jacob also enjoys acting.<br />
Miranda Vogel is an intern from<br />
Olathe, Kansas. She recently<br />
graduated from the University of<br />
Missouri in Kansas City with a<br />
major in Theatre and a minor in<br />
Geography. Miranda has<br />
volunteered at the Cedar Cove<br />
Wild Feline Conservatory in<br />
Louisberg, Kansas. Miranda is<br />
passionate about investing her<br />
time and efforts into the care of<br />
animals and hopes her time here<br />
will assist her in exploring opportunities<br />
to work with wild life.<br />
In April, the beautifully renovated Lafayette Theater hosted <strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong><br />
night at the movies. This spring they were showcasing a<br />
different classic movie every Thursday. “Our”<br />
movie was Hoosiers, an Indiana classic<br />
involving basketball. Spurlocks, a local<br />
restaurant, supplied pork tenderloin sandwiches,<br />
another Indiana classic. The proceeds from<br />
dinner were donated to support <strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong>. Our<br />
thanks go out to the good folks at Lafayette<br />
Theater and Spurlocks for helping us and providing<br />
Lafayette with a great way to see movies in style.
Isle Royale’s 50th Anniversary Celebration<br />
Back row: Doug Smith, Don Glaser, Rolf Peterson, David Mech, Wendell Johnson, Rick<br />
Page. Next row: Leah Vucetich, Mary Hindelang. Seated: Don Murray, John Vucetich,<br />
Peter Jordan, Brian McLaren. Front: Candy Peterson, Joe Scheidler.<br />
Tom O’Dowd and Monty Sloan<br />
attended the festivities on Isle<br />
Royale this July as scientists<br />
celebrated fifty years of<br />
research into wolf and moose<br />
interaction. It was a wonderful<br />
experience and though they did<br />
not see moose or wolves, they<br />
did see a lot of old friends and<br />
make many new ones.<br />
Back in 1958, Dr. Durward<br />
Allen, then a faculty member<br />
at Purdue University (where<br />
Dr. Klinghammer was also a<br />
professor), established what<br />
was then supposed to be a tenyear<br />
study of the wolves and<br />
moose of Isle Royale. The study<br />
lasted much longer than ten<br />
years and continues through<br />
today, the longest continuous<br />
predator-prey study in the<br />
world. L. David Mech, Rolf O.<br />
Peterson, Doug Smith and now<br />
John A. Vucetich, along with<br />
many students and EarthWatch<br />
volunteers, have made possible<br />
a unique and important long<br />
term study on a relatively<br />
‘simplified’ ecosystem where<br />
there is one large predator, the<br />
wolf, and one large prey animal,<br />
the moose.<br />
Dr. Allen sadly passed away<br />
back in 1997, but the rest of the<br />
researchers and crew were<br />
there, including pilots Don<br />
Murray and Don Glaser (much<br />
of the research on Isle Royale is<br />
done by visual spotting from<br />
airplanes). These two pilots<br />
have an impressive record. Don<br />
Murray flew from 1959-1979<br />
and Don Glaser has been flying<br />
since 1979. Through thousands<br />
of hours flying low to the<br />
ground, allowing researchers to<br />
count and observe the wolves<br />
and moose, they never had an<br />
accident. Both original planes<br />
still exist and both were flown in<br />
on Friday carrying the pilots and<br />
their families.<br />
Participants were also treated<br />
to George Desort's documentary<br />
Fortunate Wilderness,<br />
which has clips of <strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong>’s<br />
wolves filmed by Tom O’Dowd.<br />
For a preview of the film, see<br />
www.isinglasspictures.com/.<br />
To learn more about<br />
Isle Royale,<br />
visit www.isleroyalewolf.org.<br />
Gale’s News of the Small By Gale Motter<br />
Photo by Gale Motter<br />
Because my camera has such a<br />
good macro lens built into it I<br />
have been making the acquaintance<br />
of many of the overlooked<br />
little critters around us.<br />
There are some beautiful, funny,<br />
and downright strange beings<br />
all around us. I’d like to<br />
introduce you to some of them.<br />
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Member News By Amy Beaupre<br />
Long time members Elizabeth<br />
Armour and Philip Rakita<br />
visited <strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong> in May. We<br />
have lots of members– what<br />
made this visit remarkable? This<br />
wonderful couple had been<br />
sponsoring a wolf at <strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong><br />
continuously since 1974 – and<br />
had never been here to see a<br />
wolf until this year!!<br />
<strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong>’s Adopt a <strong>Wolf</strong><br />
Program provides the<br />
opportunity for individuals to<br />
sponsor one of our resident<br />
animals. One of the unique<br />
aspects of our Adopt a <strong>Wolf</strong><br />
Program is the opportunity to<br />
personally visit with the<br />
individual that the sponsor<br />
chooses, provided it is safe for<br />
them and their adopted animal.<br />
Some folks rush to schedule a<br />
visit soon after beginning their<br />
sponsorship, as the “perk” of<br />
“adopting” a wolf or other animal<br />
of choice is often what<br />
encourages them to select this<br />
membership versus a traditional<br />
single or family membership.<br />
However, some members wait a<br />
lifetime for a moment like this!<br />
Elizabeth and Philip waited<br />
longer than several lifetimes–<br />
wolf lifetimes that is. For 34<br />
years this couple has been<br />
This little spider, maybe all of<br />
half an inch long, goes by the<br />
name Tutelina. He has a habit<br />
of waving around his first pair of<br />
legs, the result of which is a<br />
little like Tai Chi in miniature.<br />
The males have a funky “hairdo”<br />
that reminds me of some of the<br />
1950’s slicked back styles. They<br />
generously supporting <strong>Wolf</strong><br />
<strong>Park</strong>, having never stepped<br />
foot on the premises, let alone<br />
having met the wolves they<br />
sponsored! Elizabeth and<br />
Philip decided to make a trip<br />
to Chicago from North Carolina<br />
for a special event because<br />
she desperately wanted to<br />
see the <strong>Park</strong>, and it was right<br />
on their way.<br />
Their visit happened to coincide<br />
with one of our 5 day seminars,<br />
but despite the busy schedule of<br />
our staff, we were all thrilled to<br />
know Elizabeth and Philip were<br />
coming after all this time. “We<br />
were warmly greeted by everyone,<br />
especially Pat, who I was<br />
delighted to finally meet after all<br />
these years of “knowing her”<br />
from the newsletter”, Elizabeth<br />
said. Their visit included the<br />
educational safety video, a tour<br />
of the park with Monty, who for<br />
so many years brought them the<br />
story of <strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong>, a visit to see<br />
Kiri through the fence, and a<br />
rendez-vous with Ayla, who<br />
stood in for Kiri for their sponsor<br />
visit. Elizabeth and Philip<br />
started their sponsorship with<br />
Cassie two years after the <strong>Park</strong><br />
had opened. When Cassie died,<br />
they had to choose a new wolf<br />
to sponsor.<br />
Elizabeth says she was<br />
“smitten” with an adorable tiny<br />
wolf pup, Kiri, who needed<br />
“adopting”. Kiri is now 15<br />
years old!<br />
It is this kind of generosity of<br />
spirit that has kept <strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong><br />
thriving all these years. Thank<br />
you Elizabeth and Philip, and<br />
all you other members out<br />
there doing the same to keep<br />
us going. If you have a story<br />
like this you would like to share<br />
with our members, be sure to<br />
let us know!<br />
also are metallic and shine in<br />
the sunlight.<br />
So why don’t we notice these<br />
little guys? They spend their<br />
time among the flowers hunting<br />
ants from the underside of<br />
leaves. And they are half an<br />
inch long...
Annual Watermelon Summer Party<br />
At <strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong>’s annual<br />
Watermelon Party, not<br />
all the wolves were on<br />
their best behavior.<br />
The party was held on<br />
June 28th this year, a<br />
tradition that includes<br />
stuffing watermelons with treats<br />
and giving them to the wolves,<br />
foxes, and even the bison. As<br />
usual, both the melons and the<br />
tasty treats inside were a hit!<br />
The wolves began their<br />
excitement upon seeing the<br />
melons being lined up by the<br />
fence, or put in a wheelbarrow<br />
near their enclosure’s entrance.<br />
Their excitement manifested in<br />
some not- very- polite and<br />
rather graceless behavior. Miska<br />
took advantage of Pat’s full<br />
hands as she juggled a melon<br />
and a megaphone, when he<br />
roughly pulled the tasty orb from<br />
her hands. Ayla dove off of the<br />
top of a hut<br />
into Monty and<br />
her melon<br />
which resulted<br />
in a result<br />
analogous to<br />
pool balls on a<br />
billiards table:<br />
she went in<br />
one direction,<br />
and her<br />
watermelon<br />
propelled in<br />
another. Monty reported that he<br />
stayed clean in the clash while<br />
Ayla reclaimed her prizes, the<br />
succulent melon and its juicy<br />
treats. While most, if not all, of<br />
the melons were eventually<br />
scent marked, <strong>Wolf</strong>gang pooped<br />
in his, provoking quite a reaction<br />
from the audience.<br />
Thank You to Our Watermelon Donors<br />
CHARLENE ABRAHAM<br />
JOSEPHINE ADAMS<br />
NICHOLE ALFANO<br />
RENATE ALLCOCK<br />
SANDY ANDERSON<br />
ROY APPLEGATE<br />
NUNZIATA ARDIZZONE<br />
BEVERLY ARNOTT<br />
LINDA BALLARD<br />
ROGER BATTON<br />
JACKIE BECK<br />
WILLIAM &<br />
LINDA BENNETT<br />
VINCENT BERG<br />
RICHARD BERNARDONI<br />
BARBARA BIESTERFELDT<br />
DENNIS BIONDI<br />
JOHN BOMBARD<br />
EDDIE & NANCY BOWER<br />
TREVOR BOYD<br />
JON BRANDY<br />
PATT BREILING<br />
DAWN BREWER (2)<br />
VICKI BRIGGS<br />
JIM BRINING<br />
MARIAN BROCK<br />
VIVIAN BROWN<br />
MARY ANN BUCKHEISTER<br />
LAURA BURRELL<br />
JONI SOFFRON<br />
c/o WOLF HOLLOW<br />
SANDRA TURMAIL<br />
c/o WOODMAR ANIMAL<br />
CLINIC<br />
BEVERLY CALIENDO<br />
JOHN CASHIN<br />
BOB CHENEY<br />
JAMES CHIALIVA<br />
R W COBLE<br />
JOLEEN & LEON COLE<br />
BERNADETTE COOK<br />
JEAN COOK<br />
GAY COPPAGE<br />
NORMA CORRELL<br />
MARILYN CULLEN<br />
JUDY DAY<br />
JUNE DECMAN<br />
DEBRA DEMERLY<br />
MICHAEL DePAULO<br />
JOHN DICK<br />
BURTON DICUS<br />
CHRIS DIEKMAN<br />
BRIAN DIETZ<br />
DOTTERWEICH<br />
DAWN DOWNS<br />
PAT DYAR<br />
DON & CELESTE DYBECK<br />
EMMA EBY<br />
NANCY EGGERT<br />
JOHN EIME<br />
STEPHEN ELLIS<br />
MARIAN ENGLAND<br />
DORIS ETHERIDGE<br />
SUE ETTELSON<br />
CAL & DONNA EWING (2)<br />
JOHN EWING<br />
F&S WILLIAMS<br />
PHYLLIS FELDNER<br />
UTA FESTERLING-POHL<br />
KELLY FIGHTS<br />
ALICE FITZGERALD<br />
MARGARET FLACK<br />
WILLIAM &<br />
SUSAN FORBES<br />
ANITA FREEMAN<br />
MACK FUHRER<br />
DONNA GAGEN<br />
LUCRECE GALLANT<br />
DENISA & CRAIG GARNER<br />
JULIA GILE<br />
GAIL GILMORE<br />
TINA GLASSMAN<br />
LEEANN GOODWIN<br />
LYNN GRABELLE<br />
JAMES GREEN, JR<br />
DEBRA GREULICH<br />
MAXINE J. HAIDOS<br />
CHARLENE HALL<br />
EMILY & ALLEN HALLOCK<br />
MR & MRS VERNON L<br />
HALTERMAN<br />
TIMOTHY HANSON<br />
JODY BROWN HARKEY<br />
PETER &<br />
LORETTA HARTWIG<br />
LORI HEBERT<br />
TIM HEISER<br />
CHRISTOPHER HELLER<br />
BRUCE HENDERSON<br />
LAURIE HENDERSON<br />
SUSAN HOCHGRABER<br />
KATIE HODGE<br />
MICHAEL HODGES<br />
GREG HOFFMAN<br />
DON HOLCOMB<br />
HERB & DEBBY HOLT<br />
ALLAN HOMMELGAARD<br />
JAKE HORVATH<br />
LINDA HREBIK<br />
ALICE HUBER<br />
HAROLD &<br />
JANET HUDSON<br />
GEORGE & ELIZ<br />
HUNTINGTON<br />
GERHARD & DONNA IMMIG<br />
RALPH & CONNIE JENKINS<br />
TINA JENKINS<br />
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Some of the other wolves<br />
handled their summer treat with<br />
a bit more grace. Orca claimed<br />
his indulgence and scurried off<br />
making a valiant effort to use<br />
his hind limbs. Echo, the<br />
<strong>Park</strong>’s grand dame, delicately<br />
dismembered her watermelon<br />
and selected her treats with her<br />
usual pickiness. Kiri leisurely<br />
enjoyed his melon.<br />
Even the bison got a melon!<br />
It was primarily enjoyed by a<br />
cow and a couple of calves,<br />
including the rind. Remnants<br />
of the melon were found<br />
the next day during the wolfbison<br />
demonstration.<br />
The foxes too enjoyed their<br />
watermelons, as they are known<br />
to. Monty was able to get a<br />
great picture of Basil (Left),<br />
nibbling on a melon, looking<br />
younger than his years. Pat<br />
wisely commented that it is<br />
easy to think that watermelons<br />
contain fluid from the fountain<br />
of youth since eating them<br />
makes her feel like a kid again.<br />
How true!<br />
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<strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong> Fox Updates by Pat Goodmann<br />
Devon has been stealing mice.<br />
Probably she does not see it<br />
that way; Amanda says that<br />
Devon “never saw a mouse that<br />
was not hers – no matter who<br />
was holding it.”<br />
Amanda continued to help<br />
Basil with his shedding. He was<br />
having a little trouble in the<br />
personal grooming department,<br />
so between scissors and a rake<br />
borrowed from Monty, Basil<br />
has lost his fur coat.<br />
Unfortunately Basil got more<br />
help than he really wanted.<br />
He is in a State of Pique, rather<br />
like someone who went into<br />
a hair salon for a trim and<br />
wound up getting four inches,<br />
that they had not intended to<br />
part with, whacked off.<br />
Despite his age, Basil is still<br />
active. Amanda reports: “Not too<br />
long ago, bionic boy was<br />
practicing for the Iron Man and<br />
was spied racing up, down and<br />
all around the Den. Rapid<br />
ascents, hairpin turns, sprints,<br />
dashes and long jumps – he<br />
had it all going on. In order to<br />
maintain his trim physique, Basil<br />
refrains from indulging in more<br />
than four or five mice meals at a<br />
time, but he will always accept<br />
handouts for later.”<br />
Ember has thrilled several<br />
people by coming up to them<br />
and making contact. Amanda<br />
noted that volunteer Sheri<br />
Tatlock has done a superb job<br />
of getting the foxes, including<br />
Ember, to come up to her.<br />
<strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong> Coyote Updates by Pat Goodmann<br />
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We continue to work at training<br />
Willow and Twister. They enjoy<br />
it, we enjoy it. The difficulty lies,<br />
not so much in getting the<br />
desired behavior, but in getting<br />
it when we want it. Both yotes<br />
are easily distracted. While we<br />
have all seen them concentrate<br />
on producing behaviors on cue,<br />
we have also seen them display<br />
conflict, trying to divide their<br />
focus between the work at<br />
hand, and another person<br />
outside the enclosure. When<br />
they show signs of conflict we<br />
can’t count so much on them<br />
going through their training<br />
routines. For this reason we are<br />
still leery of taking people they<br />
have no track record of being<br />
good with into the enclosure.<br />
Even if we told them to stay on<br />
station while we brought in a<br />
newbie, we don’t think we could<br />
count on the yotes doing as<br />
they are told. Yet.<br />
But both are<br />
making progress.<br />
Donate to the Mice Fund!<br />
Basil, Devon and Ember are<br />
looking for some generous<br />
people to make a donation so<br />
<strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong> can buy them some<br />
mice. A bag of 50 frozen mice<br />
costs around $25.00. This is<br />
enough for the foxes to snack<br />
on mice for one week (or a<br />
single meal, if you ask Devon).<br />
As an added bonus, if you<br />
happen to be a fox sponsor, on<br />
your next visit, if we have mice<br />
in stock, you may join in the fun<br />
by helping to give the foxes<br />
their most prized treat!<br />
As always, donations can be<br />
mailed, phoned, or done on the<br />
online gift shop at www.wolfparkstore.com.<br />
Simply write in<br />
the comments section that you<br />
want to give the foxes some<br />
mice. Our fuzzy friends are<br />
looking forward to hearing from<br />
you! (Should we get more mice<br />
than we can handle, we will use<br />
your kind donation toward other<br />
ways of improving the lives of<br />
the resident animals here at<br />
<strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong>.)<br />
Even Twister. I was particularly<br />
proud of Twister when he did<br />
some 15 second stays-onstation<br />
with a group of visitors<br />
behind him (and outside the<br />
enclosure). Willow has been<br />
stalking some of the new interns<br />
and some of the old ones who<br />
return as volunteers. Both yotes<br />
were happy to see puppy dad<br />
Andrew Miller back for a visit.<br />
Coyotes (Canis latrans)<br />
Its Latin name, Canis latrans, means "barking dog."<br />
Twister (Left) - Male - Born April 3, 2006<br />
Willow (Above) - Female - Born April 2, 2006
2008 Calendar<br />
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August<br />
16 Full Moon Howl Night 7:30 pm<br />
23 <strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong> After Hours 7:30 pm<br />
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1 Labor Day (<strong>Park</strong> Open) 1-5pm<br />
20 <strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong> After Hours 7:30 pm<br />
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18 <strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong> After Hours 7:30 pm<br />
25 Pumpkins for Wolves 1-5pm<br />
November<br />
14 Full Moon Howl Night 7:30 pm<br />
22 <strong>Wolf</strong> <strong>Park</strong> After Hours 7:30 pm<br />
30 <strong>Park</strong> Closes for Season<br />
December<br />
13 Santa Visits (<strong>Park</strong> Open) 1-4 pm<br />
26 Guided Tours 1-5 pm<br />
27 Guided Tours 1-5 pm<br />
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