Ambassador wolf pups Alawa and Zephyr of the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, NY.
Alawa (meaning "sweetpea" in Algonquin, and pronounced "ai-lay-ewa) is brown and gray and her temperament matches her name. She and her litter-mate, Zephyr (meaning "light or west wind"), were born on April 20 and arrived at the WCC on May 27. They join Atka to make up the Ambassador Pack - the wolves on view as part of the WCC's education programs.
At first glance, Alawa comes across as dainty and demure compared to her rambunctious brother. Watch her for a while, and you’ll notice she’s often dominating her taller brother with impressive moves while rough-housing. Alawa is not as vocal as Zephyr so far, but her howl is adorable when she chooses to sing.
Their lineage is a mix of gray wolf subspecies, but they are primarily Canis lupus occidentalis - Canadian/Rocky Mountain gray wolf -- a subspecies that traditionally inhabited parts of the western United States, much of western Canada, and all of Alaska.
The Canadian/Rocky Mountain gray wolf was reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho in 1995 and 1996; today over 1,600 of the subspecies live in the wild of the Northern Rockies.
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Alawa (meaning "sweetpea" in Algonquin, and pronounced "ai-lay-ewa) is brown and gray and her temperament matches her name. She and her litter-mate, Zephyr (meaning "light or west wind"), were born on April 20 and arrived at the WCC on May 27. They join Atka to make up the Ambassador Pack - the wolves on view as part of the WCC's education programs.
At first glance, Alawa comes across as dainty and demure compared to her rambunctious brother. Watch her for a while, and you’ll notice she’s often dominating her taller brother with impressive moves while rough-housing. Alawa is not as vocal as Zephyr so far, but her howl is adorable when she chooses to sing.
Their lineage is a mix of gray wolf subspecies, but they are primarily Canis lupus occidentalis - Canadian/Rocky Mountain gray wolf -- a subspecies that traditionally inhabited parts of the western United States, much of western Canada, and all of Alaska.
The Canadian/Rocky Mountain gray wolf was reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho in 1995 and 1996; today over 1,600 of the subspecies live in the wild of the Northern Rockies.
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they are beautiful
You spend so much time & money to preserve wolves, only to have those idiots in Idaho kill them off. Isn't there anyone in the Idaho government with the slightest bit of intelligence?