San Francisco's new Mexican gray wolves

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San Francisco's new Mexican gray wolves

Post by Koa » Tue Jun 14, 2016 4:59 pm

Some insight into how captive Mexican wolves are bred and other ways they are capable of contributing to the gene pool...even if they are ten years old!
Endangered Mexican Wolves Debut at SF Zoo
By Lisa Marie Potter, JUNE 8, 2016
KQED SCIENCE

The pack is part of a captive breeding program to contribute to the genetic diversity—and therefore the survival—of wolf populations that have been reintroduced to their historical ranges in the southwestern U.S. and central Mexico.
Read more here:
http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/06/08/ ... at-sf-zoo/

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