July 30, 2012
Ely, MN (Northland's NewsCenter introduced its two wolf pups into the pack Monday.
"We were kidding that a number of us couldn't sleep last night, we were that excited," said the Center's Director of Education, Jerritt Johnson.
The Center had been preparing for the wolf pups to join the pack since they recieved the pups in April.
"This is a real exciting thing for them to have, to have trees, to have the big pond," said the Center's curator, Lori Schmidt.
Schmidt says the transition went as well as it could. One of the only concerns regarded the female pup, Luna, who is still recovering from a broken femur, but there should be plenty of watchful eyes on the pups.
A team of behavioral researchers will be watching them around the clock for days after the transition, looking for signs that anything might go wrong.
"We have someone from Scotland here, we have people from all over the country here helping us," said Schmidt.
But perhaps the most important watching eyes are those of the visitors the center hopes to educate.
"Once they're in the door, they take that opportunity to learn about wolves overall and they learn about the pup development and that draws them into wolves as a general topic," said Johnson.
The International Wolf Center gets new pups about every three or four years.
Written for the web by Jennifer Austin.
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Ely, MN (Northland's NewsCenter introduced its two wolf pups into the pack Monday.
"We were kidding that a number of us couldn't sleep last night, we were that excited," said the Center's Director of Education, Jerritt Johnson.
The Center had been preparing for the wolf pups to join the pack since they recieved the pups in April.
"This is a real exciting thing for them to have, to have trees, to have the big pond," said the Center's curator, Lori Schmidt.
Schmidt says the transition went as well as it could. One of the only concerns regarded the female pup, Luna, who is still recovering from a broken femur, but there should be plenty of watchful eyes on the pups.
A team of behavioral researchers will be watching them around the clock for days after the transition, looking for signs that anything might go wrong.
"We have someone from Scotland here, we have people from all over the country here helping us," said Schmidt.
But perhaps the most important watching eyes are those of the visitors the center hopes to educate.
"Once they're in the door, they take that opportunity to learn about wolves overall and they learn about the pup development and that draws them into wolves as a general topic," said Johnson.
The International Wolf Center gets new pups about every three or four years.
Written for the web by Jennifer Austin.
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