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Thursday, July 02, 2009
Mexican Gray Wolf Pups Found Dead
Associated Press
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has rescued two abandoned Mexican gray wolf pups but three others from the same litter were found dead in southwestern New Mexico.
The agency announced Thursday that the San Mateo pack's alpha female had given birth to six pups in April. In June, two were found dead and the wolf moved a third to a new den.
The remaining three pups were abandoned in the old den after the female failed to coax them out of a crevice. Officials with the wolf reintroduction program tried to reunite one of the pups with the pack's alpha male and female but it was later found dead.
The remaining two pups that were found deep in the crevice were taken to the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge.
The federal government began reintroducing the endangered wolves along the Arizona-New Mexico line in 1998.
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