4 months old. critically endangered American red wolf pups (looky)

[IcyPeas]

Pupdate! 🐺 The critically endangered American red wolf pups that were born at our off-site facility in May are growing fast. The 4-month-old pups are the latest success in the story of recovery for this iconic species. Watch the beautiful pack howl, wrestle and play together!

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[erronis]

1. Thank you. Another species that is part of our world-wide ecology - on a level with all of us.

When you I into the eyes of an animal, or even thing about their existence in this world, I realize that they are just like me. Wanting to live and do the normal things their species do. I am no better, and perhaps worse, than all.

Now, I'm contemplating our relationships with plants and things like my own personal micro-biome.

[japple]

2. Thanks for posting this. I loved it. Woke up all the cats!!!

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[Warpy]

3. And lookie here

Having been raised from the age of 10 days up to 23 weeks by trained caregivers, the dogs and wolves were put through a roughly 15-minute long experiment.

In it, the primary female caregiver to the wolves and dogs would take turns with a female stranger going in and out of a room and engaging with the animals, whether through active play or, if the animal engaged them, petting.

Like the dogs, the wolves showed more affection and spent more time greeting the familiar person, and engaged in more physical contact. The familiar person was also more likely to be followed to the door as they left.

https://www.sciencealert.com/wolves-really-can-become-attached-to-humans-like-dogs-can-adorable-study-finds

I read a long time ago and can't remember where that the main difference between wolves and the dogs that separated off from them was that dogs can tolerate a lot of non meat food that humans feed them, while anything but meat tends to upset a wolf's digestion.

I'd still never have a wolf for a pet, I'd rather have one living in a pack somewhere, competing with coyotes for food and thereby decreasing the number of coyotes, which are worse pests.

[leftieNanner]

4. We just moved here!

My house is ten minutes away from the zoo.

Need to get down there soon.

Thanks for posting.

[eppur_se_muova]

5. There was an interesting episode of Expedition-X on this, the "Arkansas Howler" ....

they found a couple of eyewitnesses who allowed them to establish that the "Howler" is quite certainly the nearly vanished Ozark red wolf.

https://www.discovery.com/shows/expedition-x/3/the-ozark-howler

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20764900/