The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Arizona Game and Fish Department released a pair of Mexican wolves into the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests on April 22. The female (AF1305) is the Rim Pack breeding female that was taken into captivity in January to be paired with male M1130, a more genetically-diverse male. M1130 was whelped at the California Wolf Center in 2008 and eventually moved to the Service’s Sevilleta Wolf Management Facility in New Mexico. The wolf pair was observed breeding and biologists believe the female is pregnant. The pair was released near the Rim Pack’s old territory in Arizona. The Mexican Wolf Interagency Field Team conducted a “soft release” of the pair, meaning the wolves will be held in an enclosure until the animals chew through the fencing and self-release.
Learn more at: http://www.fws.gov/
Photo: Rim pack female (AF1305) just prior to capture at Sevilleta Wolf Management Facility in New Mexico and transport for release in Arizona. (USFWS photo)
Tags: #wolf #mammal #animal #fauna
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