Missouri wildlife officials place six Mexican wolf pups born in captivity near St. Louis with two packs in the wild, in a new effort to repopulate the critically endangered species.
In this April 18, 2019 photo provided by the Endangered Wolf Center in Eureka, Mo.,, four of six Mexican wolves born recently in captivity are held at the center, after landing in Phoenix, Ariz., for relocation into the wild. A team from the center and U.S. Fish and Wildlife biologists placed them with wolf dens along the Arizona and New Mexico borders, where they will be raised by foster parents in the wild.
“It is literally vital for this particular population,” Regina Mossotti, director of animal care and conservation at the Endangered Wolf Center, said Thursday. “When you’re talking about 150 animals left in the wild, genetics plays a crucial part in whether that recovery effort is successful or not.”
The six pups — three male and three female — were among nine born at the center on April 7 to parents Mack and Vera. Meanwhile, monitoring showed that several wild packs were having births at around the same time. From there, the women hiked, carrying the potato-sized pups in pet carrier backpacks, to sites where U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials had located the dens.
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