Red Wolves born at Miller Park Zoo in Bloomington

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted Jun 21, 2012

BLOOMINGTON — Miller Park Zoo has again added to the Red Wolf population.

WJBC Radio reports that two Red Wolf pups were born at the Bloomington zoo and can now be seen in the Red Wolf habitat.

Zoo Superintendent Jay Tetzloff says Red Wolves are an endangered species. He says there were only 14 pure Red Wolves known to be alive in the world in 1970 and those wolves later were removed from the wild to establish a breeding program.

Tetzloff says now there are about 179 Red Wolves in 40 institutions, including Miller Park Zoo.
The central Illinois zoo has exhibited the wolves since 1993, and Tetzloff says the latest births are a great success for the national Red Wolf Species Survival Program.

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