Puppies! - Wolf Park

Wolf Park is proud to announce the arrival of puppies — 

the first pups born at Wolf Park since 1999, and the first 

litter we have kept since 1998. 

The proud parents are the alpha pair of our main 

research pack, the “Happy Pack”: Erin and Tristan. While 

Erin did mate twice with 

Chetan this year — and our 

fervent hopes were for Erin/ 

Chetan offspring — because 

of the timing of the pups’ 

birth, it is highly likely that 

Tristan is the father of the 

pups. 

This year, Erin began 

digging in the old dens on the 

island around April 10, and 

by the morning of April 12 

she vanished into one of the 

holes and did not come out. 

Tristan and Chetan were 

seen occasionally wandering 

over to the island, sometimes 

with food, sometimes without, 

and then wandering away. 

Staff entered the enclosure and interacted with Tristan and 

Chetan, calling Erin’s name occasionally and even 

passing out treats; Erin did not appear. 

We could only assume she was in the den with pups. 

We made one foray towards the island, just to make sure 

all was well, armed with calf legs for “provisioning” Erin, 

much as Tristan and Chetan were doing. Erin came out 

and accepted the provisions and then asked us politely to 

go away. Then she asked us slightly less politely to go 

away. We went away, secure in the knowledge that she 

was guarding something. We left Erin to her own devices 

until it was time to “pull” the puppies for hand-raising — 

just before Spring Celebration 2004. 

Around April 16th or 17th or so, Erin began exiting the 

den for longer periods of time — half an hour here, half an 

hour there — grabbing a bite to eat, socializing with 

Tristan and Chetan, and keeping a close eye on the 

activities of the East Lake wolves, especially Marion. She 

occasionally even socialized with humans before 

disappearing back into the den. 

Therefore, when, on the morning of April 22, Monty and 

Dana opened a gate into East Lake, allowing the Happy 

 

Quarterly Newsletter of the 

North American Wildlife Park Foundation Vol. 31 No 1 - Spring 2004 

Puppies! 

Kailani, whose name means “sea and sky” in Hawaiian, at four weeks. Photo by Monty Sloan 

Wolf Park is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of wolves 

in captivity and in the wild through behavioral research and education. 

By Jessica Willard 

Pack a treasured opportunity to go and fence-fight with 

their hated rivals, the Alpha Pack, across the corridor, Erin 

was out and about and willing to change enclosures. The 

Happy Pack streamed into the empty pen and immediately 

put on their most threatening and impressive displays. 

The door closed quietly 

behind them. 

With the Happy Pack 

happily occupied putting the 

fear of Erin into the Alphas, 

human staff snuck in and 

braved the wobbly log bridge 

to the island. The Park’s 

smallest staff member, Dana, 

got the honor of going in and 

retrieving the pups. She 

found four pups, fat and 

happy in a little pile, at the 

bottom of a large den with 

two tunnels leading in. Dana 

removed them one at a 

time — two boys, two girls — 

and handed them to waiting 

puppy mother Pam, who had 

been willing to brave the bridge (head puppy mother 

Peggy chose the more dignified option of having the 

puppies brought to her). Photos were taken and the pups 

were bundled together and carried to shore, safe and dry 

in a pillowcase. While pains were taken to keep them 

together at all times in case one felt lonely and emitted a 

“lost call”, possibly alerting Erin, the pups seemed not to 

be perturbed by this unusual activity in the least. They 

settled right down in the nursery and fell asleep, just like 

professional puppies. 

When the pups 

were safely out of 

sight, the Happies 

were allowed back into 

the main enclosure. 

Erin did do some 

searching in the dens 

and howling, but there 

was no “wailing and 

gnashing of teeth”. As 

her milk dried up over 

Ruedi being cute at 10 days old. 

Photo by Monty Sloan 

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Wolf Park has had an eventful spring. The main pack enclosure flooded for 

the first time in our memory. On the 10 th of June it began to rain. More than 

six inches of rain fell that day, and by the next day the pond overflowed on 

both side of the dam for the first time we can remember. The lake went over 

its banks inside the wolf enclosure, and fish, which had formerly resided in the 

lake, were suddenly found on the trail. Staff members chased some of them 

across the lawn, picked them up and tossed them back into the pond; other 

fish just got lost downhill in the grass, and the wolves were seen eating some. 

North of the pond the inlet overflowed north of the bridge, and the Loop Trail 

was flooded. It still is. However, tornados, which also were in the area, went 

by far south of us, and overall we came through the weather all right. 

On Friday, June 18, the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago, from which we obtained 

our first two wolves in 1972, opened a new wolf exhibit featuring Mexican 

wolves. While I was still teaching at the University of Chicago, I used to come 

to the Brookfield Zoo with my students to observe wolves, baboons and other 

animals. Dr. George Rabb and his wife Mary, who did most of the wolf 

observations at their original wolf exhibit, and I have been friends for about 40 

years. So it was an honor for us Wolf Park people to be there. After all, that 

is where our pack originated. Pat, Holly, Monty and I drove up and were 

welcomed with a breakfast. I met Dr. Strahl, the new director, and Dr. Rabb, 

Director Emeritus, under whose direction funds were raised for the new 

exhibit. The Regenstein family put up the 2.5 million dollars to create – in the 

words of the donor – the “Hilton” of wolf exhibits. In my opinion it is the best 

wolf enclosure and educational building I have ever seen. Five Mexican 

wolves live there. You must go there and see it if you can at all arrange it. 

Dr. Strahl introduced various guests, dignitaries, and donors prior to the 

ribbon cutting ceremony. I was allowed to say a few words. I wanted to thank 

Dr. Rabb for giving me Wolf Park’s first two wolves, Koko and Cassie. I 

presented George with a wolf pin designed by Sid Bell as a small token of 

appreciation for his and Mary’s support for us. 

Meanwhile, Erin’s four pups, Ayla, Kailani, Ruedi and Renki are ten weeks 

old. They are by now living in a large enclosure at East Lake. If you check 

our web site under “Photo of the Day” you can sometimes see photos of the 

pups, and follow their development. The puppy mothers, Peggy, Pam and 

Marla, have been doing an excellent job as foster parents. Look on our web 

site for the day when the pups will be re-introduced into their parents’ pack, on 

August 27. 

Wolf Park’s new, revamped seminars have been doing incredibly well. The 

seminar featuring Ken McCort, “Creative Cures for Problematic Canine 

Behaviors”, held in May, drew rave reviews, as did May’s “Wolf Intensive 

Weekend”. The “A More Complete View” workshop, with Suzanne Clothier, 

was booked full and featured a variety of interesting activities (including 

flooding, but we won’t be planning on any of that in next year’s seminars). 

There is still room in some of our later seminars, including our second “Wolf 

Intensive Weekend” October 22-24, if you would like a sample of our new 

offerings. 

Our new informational web site at www.wolfnews.org has worked through 

some minor technical difficulties and is being updated regularly. Visit it to 

keep up to date on wolf news from around the world. 

We hope you have a nice summer, and 

invite you to visit us as you travel on your 

vacations. 

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on June 18. Displaying five highly endangered Mexican 

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keeping the wolves on view at all times. The multi-milliondollar 

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Drs. Klinghammer, Rabb, and Strahl at the new exhibit. 

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Basil and Devon, and indeed Corey and Ember, had a subtle, almost to 

the point of nonexistence, breeding season. While we wish we could 

watch all our animals 24/7, if only to keep up on the latest gossip, we 

unfortunately cannot, and the foxes get up to all their most foxy things in 

the wee, wee hours of the morning when we humans usually are not 

around. So, if anyone did anything this breeding season, they’re 

keeping it secret. Even so, both “pairs” remain more or less affectionate 

Corey. 

couples. Corey and Ember can often be 

seen nibble grooming each other, and, well, 

Basil does not always toss Devon 

unceremoniously off the side when Devon 

jumps up to “share” a fox box with him…. 

Spring snuck in with very little change in 

the fox enclosure, especially in the area of 

landscaping. While Devon and Ember (and, 

probably, our dear 

“innocent” Basil) did 

put in at least a 

perfunctory effort at 

digging dens for 

nonexistent baby foxes again this year, so far no 

enormous renovations or “repavings” have been 

required. The girls did put some work in on a den 

in the rear of the enclosure — fortunately safely 

away from all the fences and under a big pile of 

logs we had put there to encourage the foxes to 

dig in that relatively safe location. We would say 

something silly like “Maybe we won’t actually 

need to pave the whole enclosure,” but when we say things like that it 

seems that the foxes hear it (no matter where we are) and immediately 

take it upon themselves to prove us wrong. 

Devon’s “hot spots” (skin 

sores due to allergies), while 

remaining a lurking threat, 

have been more or less 

dormant so far this year (and 

now that we’ve said that…). 

Instead, this year Corey 

stepped in and filled the “fox 

worrying gap” by getting a 

Devon. 



Basil. 

bizarre bald spot on his rump 

which appeared overnight and 

almost immediately started growing healthy fur back in. For a while he 

had a big red spot on his rump, with the shiny new red fur standing out 

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brightly against his 

older winter coat. It 

looked kind of funny, 

but it didn’t seem to 

make much of a 

difference to him. 

Basil, who was 

most likely born in 

1995, is wandering 

cutely into the path 

of middle age, while Ember balances atop a “fox box”. 


the girls, turning four this year, are just hitting their prime. Fortunately, 

Basil seems to wear age well, giving him a dashing Sean Connery look 

rather than a Mr. Magoo mien. Adequan seems to be making a big 

difference in Mr. Basil’s mobility. Though he still has his “creaky” days, 

we still find him on top of fox boxes (and heads!) quite a lot of the time, 

and he always has a loud “squee!” to offer incoming visitors. We are 

considering adding craniosacral therapy, which 

seems to make a lot of our creakier animals 

happy, to Basil’s regimen to see if he’s 

interested in it. Given that he’s usually thrilled 

to have anybody put their hands on him 

(especially if food is involved) we feel he’ll be 

happy to take part. 

Basil and Devon spent a lot of the winter 

lounging in a single ray of sun which hit the “fox 

hammock” we unintentionally installed in the 


back half of the enclosure. We say 

“unintentionally” installed, because it wasn’t 

intended to be a fox hammock — really it was 

supposed to be an ivy arbor, but we never found ivy for it and now it 

holds lazy foxes. Recently Ember was seen giving it a try as well. 

Perhaps we should build a big hammock so that all four foxes can 

enjoy appearing to float in midair and making humans look at them 

funny. 

Starting last fall, Devon decided to test Ember and spent some 

“quality time” chasing her around and around, nibbling on her, and 

generally driving her crazy. For a while we were worried we might 

have to separate them, but through the winter the behavior went away 

and this spring we have caught the girls snuggling together, crammed 

into the same fox box peacefully, several times. They pile up in a fluffy 

mound of orange and silver fur, which is so cute we often can’t enter 

the enclosure until we’ve had a good look at it. When staff call their 

names their heads pop up out of the mound of fur and they squeak 

and wave their tails, still happily wrapped around each other. 

Kodi and Katia, the two New Guinea Singing Dogs we currently have on loan from the Columbian 

Park Zoo while their enclosure at the Zoo is being renovated, are settling in nicely. Katia caught an 

unwary rabbit, who had wandered unknowingly into the enclosure, in early May, and fiercely 

defended it from all comers while she enjoyed it. 

While Katia remains more or less aloof with interns, usually not getting much closer than three 

to five feet, Kodi is working hard to build a fan following at the Park. His penchant for scentrubbing 

on hair has entranced many an intern or staff member. The dogs also keep a close eye on 

the fox enclosure just across the trail, and Kodi makes sure to remind any visitors to the fox 

enclosure that New Guinea Singing Dogs are just as cute. 

Both dogs have added their distinctive, melodious howls to the wolves’ chorus, indicating that 

they have claimed their new enclosure as their territory and are defending it. We are glad they 

seem to feel right at home. 

Kodi and Katia. 


Each week keepers from the Columbian Park Zoo visit the dogs and bring them items of interest. One week it might just be an unusual smell 

(coffee or molasses); other weeks have seen the dogs gifted with plush professional wrestlers and toy lawnmowers. 

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the next few days, her searching diminished. In the wild, 

the disappearance of even an entire litter is not uncommon. 

Wolf mothers search for a while, and then move on. 

While we all feel very sorry for the mother wolf when we 

take the pups away, we know that the puppies’ lives will be 

miserable if they are not hand-raised — far more miserable 

than the mother is when we take the pups away. If we let 

the babies stay with their mother, even if we interact with 

them every day, they will not bond properly with humans, 

and will be terrified of people their whole lives — and, since 

they will be spending all their time surrounded by humans, 

that would make their lives unbearably stressful. 

Socializing the pups improves their quality of life 

immeasurably, in a wide variety of ways. So we take the 

pups each year. 

We all apologized to Erin. We wish we could explain 

things to her, and, more, we wish we could tell her that she 

will see her puppies again — they will be added back to the 

main pack in August. 

Back in the nursery, the pups were being ooh-ed and 

aah-ed over, weighed, and adored. The pups 

were huge, about 2 1/2 pounds (1.2 kg) 

apiece, and absolutely gorgeous. Erin did a 

tremendous job with them. One of the boys 

and one of the girls (Renki and Ayla, 

respectively) even had their eyes open, 

although they were not yet developed enough 

to track movement. Pups this age (about 10 

days) can wiggle, crawl, grunt, and suckle, 

and that’s about it — but pups grow fast. 

Renki quickly expanded his vocal repertoire 

by emitting the litter’s first bark at about 3:00 

pm on his first day with his new human 

parents. During their first night, Ayla 

produced a miniature howl. 

By the 29th of April, teeth were starting to Renki at five weeks. 

come in, ears were opening, and eyes were 

beginning to respond to light levels. The pups moved 

around the nursery, climbing on and off of the puppy 

mothers’ sleeping mattress, and started to wrestle with 

each other — the very tiny beginnings of competition for 

rank. At 5:15 pm on the 29th, Ayla was taken outside for 

the very first time for an attempt at getting an official 

portrait taken for sponsors and admirers. She posed 

Puppy mother Pam and head puppy mother Peggy with pups. 

Puppy mother Marla moved too fast to be photographed! 

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Photos by Monty Sloan 


Proud parents, Erin and Tristan pose on the hollow log. 


beautifully — a born diva — but proper portraits would 

have to wait until she could pose by herself in the grass, 

rather than being held in a puppy mother’s arms. 

By May 4, the pups had their first tastes of both water 

and meat. (Very young pups do not drink water; they get 

all their moisture from milk.) On May 6, they visited the 

outdoor nursery for the very first time and were given a real 

deer leg, with a little meat left on it, of their 

very own (they were thrilled). Renki performed 

his first scent roll. On May 14th, during a Howl 

Night program, the pups joined in their first 

chorus howl with the adult wolves. 

The pups are raised by humans, but they 

must meet some adult canines as they grow if 

they are to interact properly with the rest of the 


pack when they return in August. On May 

17th, the pups were presented with a variety of 

adult canines for little 5-minute sessions. 

Deneb, one of our older female wolves, did not 

seem terribly interested in the puppies, 

although they were fascinated by her as she 

was walked by outside their pen. Peggy’s 

dogs, Spirit and Lexi (female German 

Shepherds) were also walked by the pen, one 

at a time. They seemed a little awkward around the wolf 

pups and the pups did not seem as thrilled by the dogs as 

they were by the wolf. (Some dogs love wolf pups, and 

vice versa. Spirit and 

Lexi are simply not two of 

those dogs.) 

The pups were 

positively entranced by 

Peggy’s long-haired 

Chihuahua, Little Bit, but 

Little Bit did not share the 

feeling! Outnumbered by 

four enormous clumsy 

puppies who were 

already larger than she, 

Little Bit climbed up on 

Peggy’s lap and made 

faces at the pups, who 

could not decide whether 

she was a grown-up, a 

playmate, or a squeaky 

toy. 

Miss Ursa Bear, 

another of our elderly 

Puppy mother Karin fills a 

wading pool while curious 

puppies look on (and in). 

Photo by Monty Sloan

Ayla at four weeks. Photo by Monty Sloan 

female wolves, exhibited a little 

more interest in the puppies 

than did Deneb and got to visit 

with the puppies inside their 

pen. Fascination with puppies 

tends to fade quickly with a lot 

of adult wolves, as the “cute 

little things” discover the joys 

of chewing on paws, tails, 

noses, and ears. Though she 

entered the pen with a gentle 

grin and a soft expression, 

after a little time being followed 

around by a pack of “grass 

sharks” nibbling excitedly on her extremities, Ursa looked 

ready to leave and was assisted back out of the pen. 

On May 31, Karin, who had four litters of her own in the 

late 1990s, got to visit the puppies. We took the pups over 

to an enclosure at East Lake, and, after they had a while to 

get accustomed to the enclosure, we brought Karin in. 

Karin knows exactly how to behave with puppies. She 

made herself small, crouched, whined, and lay down for 

the puppies to approach and 

explore. The puppies were 

so excited and thrilled they 

practically flung themselves 

at her head to submit to her, 

occasionally overshooting 

and actually flopping over the 

top of Karin and landing on 

the other side in their 

excitement. For about an 

hour they all enjoyed a love 

fest. We cannot recall a litter 

in the last twenty years in 

which all the puppies were so 

gentle, submissive, and well 

behaved with an adult for 

Chetan offers Tristan a submissive “smooch”. 

nearly an hour. 

The pups got their first leash lessons on May 20, at 

about five weeks of age. Their first “walk” is less about 

leash manners than about learning what the restraint of the 

leash feels like, and pairing that restraint with the 

indescribable joy of bouncing around in tall grass and 

hunting for mice. Wolves do not naturally take well to 

restraint, and we have to work hard to pair the leash with 

happy experiences and to 

help the wolves understand 

that the leash will not hurt 

them. 

The pups did very well at 

leash lessons, although 

Ruedi was a bit intimidated 

by the tall grass. Walking 

the pups in high foliage 

helps keep the pups from 

seeing something they need 

to run away from or toward, 

bolting, and getting caught 

up in the leash or suddenly 

Video records are made of 

the pups’ activities. 


restrained. In the tall grass 

they walk slowly and calmly 

and have to pause a lot to think about how to get around 

the plants. This allows them to become aware of the leash 

in a calm and gradual and nonthreatening way, and 

assures that, next time they’re shown the leash, they’ll 

associate it only with good things. 

As of this writing, the pups are living outdoors in their 

own enclosure at East Lake, just like the “big wolves” do. 

They are still occasionally meeting adult wolves, practicing 

their leash lessons, and participating in the “Adopt A Wolf” 

program, meeting adoring sponsors in person as well as 

learning to pose for photographs in puppy photo sessions. 

Ayla, named after the lead character in the Clan of the 

Cave Bear series by Jean M. Auel, has already bought her 

“queening hat” and is just waiting to grow into it. She 

wants to be first for everything, whatever it is, and wants a 

part of anything anyone else happens to have, whether it 

be deer meat or shoelaces. 

Kailani, whose name is a Hawaiian word meaning “sea 

and sky”, originally held the title of Puppy Most Resembling 

A Square, for being nearly as wide as she was long when 

taken from the den, but now she is growing into a lovely, 

svelte young lady. 


Alas, it appears she is already 

subordinate to “Queen” Ayla 

but that may change over 

time…. 

Renki, named for Irenaus 

Eibl-Eibesfeldt, a well-known 

German ethologist and friend 

of Dr. Klinghammer, has 

already started dominance 

“wars” with his brother Ruedi 

and anyone else who will 

listen. He wears a very 

serious face while he does 

this, even though he is still 

very tiny. He looks a great 

deal like his father, Tristan, 

when he stands up tall and 

puts up his little baby hackles 

and growls. 

Ruedi, named after Rudolph Schenkel, the creator of 

the first wolf ethogram, is a sweet little thing with a 

penchant for nibbling on toes (at least, he did while visitors 

to the pups’ nursery were still required to remove their 

shoes). He is a little more laid-back than his brothers and 

sisters, and always seems to have a wiggly greeting 

(interspersed with “Can you feel it when I do this?” biting) 

for his visitors. 

Puppies greet Karin for the first time. 



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We do like to give the singleton wolves, and the interns, some mutually 

instructive and enriching experiences in the form of going for walks together 

and letting the interns practice walking DENEB on leash. Deneb is patient 

and easy to deal with whether or not the intern catches on right away, 

almost moving in "freeze frame action" as if 

each second must be considered carefully 

and in detail. (Other, less “cultured” wolves 

will lunge forward at high speed or tangle 

themselves in the leash.) To help the interns 

develop more confidence and fluidity in 

handling the leash and preparing for future 

seconds (just seconds away!) Pat 

sometimes had them walk Deneb in figure 

eights around two people. Or was it that Pat 

told Deneb to walk the interns in figure 

eights? Sometimes it can be hard to tell 

simply by watching. 

Karin, Apollo, and Alyeska chorus howl. 

ORCA continues to putter along, with good days and bad days and the 

phrase “same old same old” coming unfortunately to mind. He doesn’t 

seem to mind the status being so quo. He is still shy at cleanup and still 

commands a circle of admirers at other times. On December third, Orca got 

a run (maybe scrabble is a better word) in the field south of the dam. He 

spent the better part of an hour exploring the pasture, the little riparian 

"woods" and periodically going along the fence and threatening the Happy 

Pack, who were, from Orca's standpoint, annoyingly unconcerned about his 

threats. He also found bison dung and rolled until he was green. Orca was 

offered the chance of interacting with puppies, but though he seems 

enchanted by the squirmy little things he quickly becomes nervous and 

slightly defensive — he no longer has the agility to keep up with four 

bouncing, hopping babies and prefers that they keep their distance. 

CHANI shed very early again this 

year, even though we started her 

on flax seed oil in the fall hoping to 

avoid just such an occurrence. 

The flax seed oil did seem to help, 

though, and while she did leave us 

covered with a fine layer of white 

fur every time we came in to visit, 

she always seemed to have 

enough fur left to give us another 

Chani. 


full coating next time we visited. 

We kept her hut packed full of straw in any case, and she weathered the 

winter quite well. 

KIRI and SOCRATES, aka The Brothers Not 

Karamazov, had the first bloody spat we can 

recall. On February 19th Amanda and Pat went 

in with Kiri and Socrates to test out Amanda's 

Wolf Jaw Pressure Gauge Mark II, and when 

the Boyz approached us they began growling, 

growl-barking, and gaping their jaws at each 

other while walking tall in circles at each other. 

Socrates had some blood on his leg and on his 

ruff, whereas Kiri had a bloody ear. This fight 

was little as fights go, and pretty ritualized, with 

more threats and posturing than grabbing and 

puncturing. Socrates did grab Kiri's ear once 

and hung on for a while. When they broke Miska, Seneca, and Marion chorus howl. 

apart, Kiri bit Socrates' leg and made it bleed 

more. As far as we could tell, that was it for the day. Pat was able to get 

them to come to the fence for antibiotics. This meant that for the next week 


they both got little treats of cream cheese or pieces of cheeseburger. By 

February 21st they were back to ordinary levels of winter and testosterone 

induced grumpiness and by the 27th, intern K'fir reported that he saw Kiri 

and Tease walking side by side as if hitched, and keeping in step, and 

smooching each other. On May 5th, Tease and Squeeze got a chance to 

see Karin Bloch, one of their puppy mothers, and enjoyed it immensely. 


KARIN and APOLLO mated rather late in the 

season and then relaxed. ALYESKA had to 

watch his step for several days, especially 

between February 18 and February 20, 

when we saw Apollo and Karin mate four 

times. What with Apollo guarding Karin and 

all, we left them alone for a little while 

around the breeding season and then had a 

massive merry cleanup party afterward to 

remove the debris. Karin “helped” Pat carry 

a cleanup bucket by sticking her head into it 

to the bottom, tipping the bottom up with her 

nose, and carrying the bucket that way. 

Apollo tried to “help” Pat carry a calf leg around (they only want things like 

elderly deer heads and dried calf legs because we are carrying them, not 

because they actually want to eat them). Alyeska moved up from lupus non 

grata status and has even been spotted snoozing next to Apollo while Karin 

stretches out in her own space under a separate tree. There has been no 

sign of recurrence of Al’s urinary trouble from last year…*knock on wood* 

MISKA probably did not like the breeding season very much. But he may 

have liked it better than he did when he was in a pack of six. MARION was 

the only female available and she was not interested in mating with him; she 

was interested in getting him into trouble with SENECA. Marion seemed to 

realize that if she wanted to get Seneca’s attention, all she had to do was 

stand within fifteen feet of Miska. When Marion went too close to Miska, 

Seneca came over, and sometimes made ritualized attacks on poor Miska, 

but did not hurt him. Seneca seemed to know that Marion was behind it all. 

Sometimes he stood between Marion and Miska and dealt with Marion by 

grabbing her scruff and dragging her away from his brother. Seneca had an 

easier time in one respect this year. While he has never had a rival among 

the males, Marion's interest in things besides Seneca, even at the height of 

the breeding season, often appeared to vex him. Last year, Marion had 

nearly 7 acres of which to be in charge and made sure she covered the 

entire surface area — often several times a day. Seneca was forced to 

follow her, tethered by the “invisible bungee cord” which attaches all 

attending males to the females they are attending. This year though, 

Seneca could stay close to Marion and "attend" her while she was in 

estrous without following her around and around and around and around the 

Turtle Lake Enclosure. When Marion was trying to fence fight with Erin, two 

enclosures away, Seneca could lie on one of the shelter roofs, keeping an 

eye on Marion as she ran back and forth. 

Though we could not watch Marion and 

Seneca around the clock in shifts this year 

(that was reserved for the Happy Pack) we did 

occasionally see them mating. They tied at 

least ten times that we know of between 

January 23 and February 4. 

Photo by Monty 

WILD BILL the coyote turns seventeen this 

year. We have to admit that his age is 

beginning to show around the edges. He no 

longer resembles a coffee table, and is 

acquiring a more svelte silhouette. The bad 

news is this means it is harder for him to keep 

weight on; the good news is, we get to feed 

him more, and that is always good. He becomes less and less willing to be 

touched as his aging body becomes more and more “ouchy”, but is always 

willing to add a genial (and scratchy) howl to any chorus.

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Ursa passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on June 8, 2004. 

She was seen moving around about an hour before her death was 

discovered. There was nothing to indicate that she was about to 

take her final leave. 

Ursa was born to Lailah and 

probably Mephisto of the main pack. 

As a youngster she had an odd 

colored eye, which retained a fleck of 

baby blue in a green iris until 

October of 1989. Most puppies lose 

the blue in their eyes before the end 

of June. Eventually both eyes turned 

gold and stayed gold. 

In October of her first year she 

also sustained a greenstick fracture 

in her left hind leg. The site did form 

bridging callus, but then the callus 

telescoped in on itself, leaving Ursa 

with a permanent limp or swivel in 

her hind leg. This did not slow her 

down appreciably; and by spring of 

1989 she was the dominant female 

Miss Ursa Bear. 

puppy. (Her brother Chinook was the dominant puppy uber alles.) 

She tested humans too, by "measuring" them. Measuring is a 

type of inhibited bite in which a wolf puts its jaws around some part 

of another wolf or, in this case, a human. After using its jaws as 

calipers once or twice, the wolf taking "measurements" may follow 

up with a hearty pinch. We did not stop people visiting her, but did 

intervene when she looked as if she were about to take 

measurements, and she eventually stopped measuring humans. 

Instead she turned her interest to becoming a tool using 

mammal, earning the right to a "Jogs with Scissors" T shirt. Once 

when we replaced old skirting in Wolf Woods West, I looked up to 

see Ursa approaching us. She grinned hugely around the yellow 

handles of the pruning shears, carrying them with the points turned 

safely away from her, as everyone should be taught to do. She 

came right up to us to have her trophy admired. We petted and 

praised her. This was not enough to get her to relinquish her 

treasure. Her eyes were twinkling but her jaws were clamped 

tightly around the yellow handles. We traded her a "bunny lesson" 

for the shears. In a bunny lesson the wolf lounges against a 

human for support while the human stimulates the bilateral scratch 

reflex down the wolf’s chest and belly. Ideally the wolf relaxes 

completely and then you can give shots, draw blood, or take giant 

yellow-handled scissors away from them, and they don't mind. 

When she thoroughly blissed out and relaxed her grip, we gently 

removed the shears from her jaws. 

In the fall of 1990 Ursa's leg had sufficiently stabilized for her to 

go on wolf-bison demonstrations. She showed the same talent as 

her brother Chinook and double first cousins Altair and Vega. She 

joined the “dream team” of wolves, a team we found we dared not 

let hunt together too often for fear they would actually injure a 

bison. Instead we put members of the dream team with other pack 

members showing less skill and determination and only 

occasionally took the whole dream team out together. 

In the late winter and early spring of 1993, we removed Ursa 

from the main pack. Ursa was being so aggressive to the other 

wolves, except the alphas, we thought she might drive out Akili, 

Vega, and Aurora. The level of aggression did go down after that. 

We took Chinook to visit Ursa, letting them go for romps in the 

pasture from time to time, but from then on, Ursa lived a singleton 

life, except for "aunting" puppies. 

Back in those days the Park kept a flock of sheep as an exhibit 

of sheep plus livestock guard dog, 

and as solar powered, self-propelled 

lawnmowers. My favorite old ewe, 

Parsley, was living alone in the 

corridor around the smaller 

enclosures at East Lake. Parsley, 

who was very social with humans, 

one day tried to follow us into Ursa's 

pen. Understandably annoyed when 

we pushed her away, Parsley stood 

right up at the fence, and when Ursa 

rushed her, Parsley butted her 

through the wire. 

In 1991 Ursa had showed us she 

did not tolerate people "committing 

maintenance" (mowing, trimming, 

fence repair) in, or next to, her 


enclosure and to the end of her life 

we had to be careful about letting 

her have access to someone she had recently seen committing 

maintenance, unless it was someone who had known her from 

puppyhood. Once at East Lake Ursa found she had a splash tank 

all to herself. Watching someone fill it with water was exciting but it 

was also committing maintenance. This was the start, I think, of 

Ursa "hunting” interns for sport when they committed maintenance 

outside her enclosure. Unwary interns filling a bucket from outside 

a seemingly empty enclosure would suddenly find 75 pounds of 

wolf hurtling out of the grass at head height and bouncing off the 

fence in front of them. This was before we got our DR mower and 

could trim her concealing grass “jungle”. We did find that Ursa was 

friendly and outgoing with people, including interns, if she met 

them while on a walk in one of the large pastures. 

Ursa could be extraordinarily polite about going on walks. One 

day in early 1995, I was patting Ursa and a leash, in my coat 

pocket from walking someone else, came snaking out and hung 

down a few inches. Ursa got a huge, goofy grin when she saw the 

leash and spun herself into a very creditable heel position. I 

started to tell her that I had not planned to walk her but halfway 

through the sentence I discovered that she was right. I couldn't 

disappoint that Ursa Grin. After about thirty minutes in the 

pasture, she came wiggling among us and put herself in heel 

position next to the pocket with the leash in it. I took the leash out 

and showed it to her. She smiled broadly and held quite still while I 

put it on, and then she danced to the gate and back to her pen. 

That year also marked Ursa's entry into the world of art. 

Everyone needs a hobby, but when she started making scale 

models of the Grand Canyon, and Mammoth Cave, we sometimes 

wished she'd taken up bird watching, stamp collecting, or tatting 

lace. For the next several years Ursa excavated. Besides 

repeated studies of the Grand Canyon and Mammoth Cave, she 

also made an interactive art form, which we named the "tractor 

trap," underneath one of the maintenance corridors. On another 

occasion she again dug a small tunnel under one of the corridors. 

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6 

Every year, some extremely nice people descend on Wolf Park, offering that 

most valuable of resources — their time. Volunteers visit for as little as a few 

hours a week to every day; practicums spend a month; and interns, the Park’s 

most important resource, generously donate three months of their time. In return, 

the Park provides them all with an unparalleled opportunity for both research 

and fun, as they interact with the Park wolves, give tours, do landscaping 

and repair, exhaust the Park library and talk with the staff. 

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Pam Black, former intern, returned this summer to do a stint of puppy 

mothering. 

Karin Bloch, a long-time volunteer, stopped by for three weeks, making this her 

11th year as a puppy mother. 

Michelle Brubaker, practicum, currently attends Northern Illinois University, 

majoring in art education and working in the Public Opinion Lab, monitoring data 

quality and assisting interviewers. She has a passion for collecting vintage coins 

and jewelry, and owns a Shih Tzu. 

Sheryl Groessl, practicum, is from Michigan, where she attends Michigan State 

University, majoring in Psychology. She enjoys music, and listens to a wide 

variety of genres. She does not currently have any pets, but she has a lot of 

blue shirts. 

Stephanie McCracken, intern, attends Ohio State University, majoring in 

Animal Sciences. She plays intramural volleyball in her spare time and works as 

a kennel technician. She owns a rat, a cat, and a Maltese dog. 

Fiona McGovern, intern, is currently attending Northland College in Wisconsin, 

majoring in Psychology. She does online graphic design for fun, and has 

created many web sites. She owns one cat and a miniature pinscher. 

Tracey McSherry, intern, comes from Edinburgh, Scotland, where she pursues 

a career as a “wee Scottish female”. She enjoys photography, painting, 

drawing, and making stained glass creations, and is learning the Scottish Fiddle. 

Christen Jones, intern, is from Missouri, where she is in the pre-veterinary 

program at Missouri Southern State College. She has already started an 

informal career in animal rescue, and once raised twelve baby ducks all at once. 

She owns two dogs and three cats. 

Jonathan Raine, a former intern from England, returned for a two-week stay 

and helped out. 

Kelly Reid, intern, is “a shy American and an outgoing Swede” and has recently 

graduated from Rudbeck Gymnasium with a major in Social Sciences. She 

believes in honesty and flamingos, enjoys music and Japanese animation, and 

owns a Labrador retriever and two cats. 

Lara Rutherford, practicum, attends Davis and Elkins College in West Virginia, 

majoring in Biology and Psychology. She is the editor of the college’s literary 

magazine, Aurora, and co-editor of its student paper, the Senator. She owns 

two cats, a dog, and a red fox. 

Veronica Sahlen, intern, is a Swede currently living in England, where she 

attends University College, London, majoring in biology. She plays on the 

University of London Union’s Ladies’ Ice Hockey team, and couldn’t sing to save 

her life. She owns six “very sweet” fish. 

Jordi Segers, practicum, is from the Netherlands, where he attends the Van 

Hall Instituut, majoring in Biology. Already he is displaying remarkable aptitude 

(and enthusiasm!) for deer butchering. He owns two rats. 

Angelique Vergeer, practicum, visited us from the Netherlands, where she 

works in a medical library, keeping up with the research needs of about 1100 

employees. She has volunteered in a Dutch animal shelter since 1994, and 

owns one cat. 

Anya Wachterhauser, intern, attends Franklin and Marshall College in 

Pennsylvania, majoring in Biology. She has taken ballet lessons for ten years, 

and is now studying modern dance; she also plays the clarinet. 

Manuela Weishaupt, intern, comes from Switzerland via a job at a car rental 

center in Ireland. She enjoys writing, especially producing new versions of old 

stories. She has recently started horseback riding, and owns two cats and a 

dog. 

, 

A 17 HP commercial grade DR 

All-Terrain Field and Brush Mower 

(www.drpower.com/brushmower), 

so we can locate our wolves in 

their weed “forests” during the 

growing season 

A heavy-duty bagless vacuum 

cleaner 

Rubber gloves in all sizes 

Glass cleaner, toilet paper, dish 

soap 

55-gallon “drum liner” plastic bags 

If you have some old equipment you aren’t using, 

consider donating it to a good cause! Any item you can 

donate will be greatly appreciated. For more 

information, please contact us at (765) - 567 - 2265. 

1/2” three-ring binders with clear 

outside pockets 

4- or 5-rung folding (A-shaped) 

fiberglass or aluminum ladders 

Large abrasive scouring pads and 

heavy-duty brushes for cleaning 

algae off of metal splash tanks 

Stamps — 37 cents and 23 cents 

Please DO NOT SEND WOLF 

TREATS! They make our wolves 

very round! 

 

This anonymous haiku turned up posted on a 

corkboard in the intern residence, apparently written 

by a bored intern who was watching wolves sleep 

during the 3:00 to 6:00 am breeding season watch 

shift. Maybe next year Chetan will be successful at 

wooing Erin…. 

Chetan, you’ve got to 

Show the pack you mean business 

And win that girl, man! 

Pat’s Poetry Corner has been rated “unlikely to spontaneously explode” by 

several leading physicists, and is under a “pale fuchsia” danger rating. Pat’s 

Poetry Corner contains no walnuts, peanuts, pistachios, tuna or dolphin. 

Unintended for use as a tax shelter. Inflatable to 38,000 psi, but only on 

alternate Thursdays. Use with caution and only in a well-ventilated area (or 

under a USDA-approved fume hood). Do not coat with yogurt. If you rub Pat’s 

Poetry Corner three times against your left ear and sing “Mary Had A Little 

Lamb,” the happy fairies may give you a little gift. 

Socrates greets Karin Bloch, who was his puppy mother in 1993. 

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Wolf Park News Spring 2004

Ursa meets the 2004 

puppies. 


(Continued from page 9) 

When we arrived to do 

cleanup we spied a twinkling 

Ursa eye peering up at us 

through a little peephole in 

the roof. We had to put her 

in with the puppies while we 

filled in the tunnel and 

chamber, an act which took 

the rest of the morning. 

Ursa did not mind much. 

She had extra time with the 

puppies as a result. 

By the fall of 1999 we 

noticed age creeping up on 

Miss Bear. She did not 

undertake any major 

excavations or landscaping 

projects. Other than that she got around nearly as well as 

ever. 

Though she had long ceased going on bison demos, one 

day we allowed Ursa a field run in the same pasture as a 

single, elderly bison bull. Ursa and the completely 

unconcerned bull faced each other, looking as if they were 

members of AARPP (American Association of Retired 

Predators and Prey) remembering their glory days when the 

two of them were in their prime. 

In the last two years of her life, Ursa made new friends more 

quickly and easily than at any time in the last ten years, and 

amassed a small but passionate fan club. She coped with 

several health problems, showing patience and courage. She 

lost her voice to pharyngeal paralysis. She lost the sight in one 

eye, and accepted several kinds of drops in her eye at least 

twice a day for weeks. Medicating her eye became an 

occasion to "behold the power of cheese," as that is what she 

got for sticking her nose through the fence to steady her head 

while someone put drops in her eye. Then last fall she 

suffered a sudden loss of balance. She turned involuntary 

somersaults, circled, fell down, and leaned to one side. The 

condition cleared up with antibiotics and rest. Since then she 

had no recurrence of serious problems. It was a great shock to 

find her suddenly dead on June 8, but she was at least spared 

a long, debilitating decline. We were especially grateful that 

she got to visit this year’s 

pups, and have one more 

kiwi strawberry drink before 

leaving us. 

We are often asked if we 

have favorite wolves. Usually 

our favorite wolf is whoever 

we’re visiting with at the 

moment, but sometimes there 

is a special wolf whose spirit 

follows you home even after 

you leave. I think intern Kelly 

Farley put it very well when 

he said "Your favorite wolf 

picks you." Ursa, those you 

picked will always remember 

you. 

Ursa samples “kiwi 


strawberry” fruit juice. 

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The persons named below have been kind enough to 

donate something to Wolf Park — be it time, computer 

parts, wolf treats, or, yes, money. We thank them for their 

efforts and appreciate all that they have given us. 

Pat Abplanalp 

Charlene Abraham 

Jane Addis 

Joel Ahrendt 

Sandy Anderson 

Cheryl Babik 

Gerry Bailey 

Barbara Ball 

Janice Barrett 

Bob Bell 

Barbara Bennett 

William & Linda 

Bennett 

Richard Bernardoni 

Shirley Bollinger 

Dwayne Bolten 

George Brich 

Jim Brining 

Jean Brooks 

Michelle Brubaker 

Kelly Butler 

Lisa Cavanaugh 

Gale Chase 

David Churchill 

R W Coble 

Joleen Cole 

Dr Samuel Conway 

Jean Cook 

Gay Coppage 

Kris Coss 

Burton Dicus 

Tania Doran 

Shirley Dwyer 

Pat Dyar 

Emma Eby 

Nancy Eggert 

Bryon Elliott 

Sue Ettelson 

Alice Fitzgerald 

Sharon Fitzsimmons 

Margareta Fong 

Stacie Fortenberry 

Ed Franklin 

Anita Freeman 

Denise Fung 

Alan Galbreth 

Mike & Elaine Gawlik 

Sandra Girard 

Doug & Jan Greenwood 

Hope Hagan 

Ronald Hallam 

Emily & Allen Hallock 

Mr & Mrs Vernon L 

Halterman 

Lesley Harrison 

Gary Heavysega 

Melinda Hewlett 

Christpher Hitz- 

Bradley 

Polly Hix 

Don Holcomb 

Ann Holt 

Linda Hrebik 

Michael & Phyllis Hunt 

Lenora Isbell 

Sheri Jaeger 

Tina Jenkins 

Paulette Jones 

Caity Judd 

Bill & Cheri Karn 

Susan Kemp 

Patricia Knight 

Linda Knight 

Karl Koehler 

Joyce Koelzer 

Angelika Kohlbecker 

Jane Kolmetz 

Kathleen Krum 

Cheryl Kruse 

Bonnie Larch 

Sara Jo Light 

Craig Merrick 

Anthony Matelock 

Timothy McDaniel 

William McDaniel 

Nancy McDonald 

Jan Martin McGuire 

Shauna McKean 

Robert McLaughlin 

Nadia Mead 

Kristine Miller 

David & Angela 

Murray 

Patricia Nelson 

Denise Nicoletti 

Mary Ann Nutter 

Judy Pellissier 

Bill Perrin 

Theresa Piasecki 

Debbie Poiles 

Cindy Pollack 

Jim Polster 

Chris Poneshing 

Nick Prentoff 

William & Thelma 

Pyatt 

Judy Rademaker 

Mary Ellen Rader 

Jude Rakowski 

Kathy Reck 

Bruce Reynolds 

Richard Rife 

Jane Roberts 

Kean Robinson 

Joanne Roviaro 

W J & Gaile Russ 

Lauren Ryan 

Marva Ryskiewicz 

Carol Sabo 

Madeleine Savary 

Stanley Sawyer 

Kathy Seaton 

Joe Seibert 

Marijo Semchuck 

Karen Semon 

Kent & Kari Shisler 

Joan Silaco 

Lynne Simeone 

Robert & Rebecca 

Sisk 

Tim Smiar 

Debra Smith 

Maxine Smith 

Carol Spann 

June Spence 

Eileen Stack 

Glenn & Pat Tabor 

Marj Tackett 

Crystal Thacker 

The Thieme Family 

Julia Thomas 

Robert & Marlene 

Thornburg 

Kim Truttschel 

Laurel Tryforos 

Joseph & Mary Beth 

Turek 

John Tyler 

John F Urban 

Robert Volland 

Geraldine Vrablic 

Debbie Wakeford 

Peter Waser 

Joan Weber 

Vonda Weilhammer 

Raymond Weishaar 

Mike White 

Kaylee Witt 

Jim Yearwood 

Betsy Youngquist 

Safeco 

Huntington County 

Humane Society 


5 

: 

Wolf Park is a unique research 

and education facility located 

just outside Battle Ground, 

Indiana. Its hand-raised wolves, 

foxes and coyote and its herd of 

more than a dozen American 

bison give visitors opportunities 

available nowhere else: 

 

 

This wolf is having a 

relaxing “bow stretch” — 

you can almost hear his 

joints creaking. 

Wolves “bow” for many 

reasons. They may “play 

bow” to invite another 

wolf to chase them. They 

also bow to prey animals, 

such as bison, sometimes 

leading people to believe 

they are asking the bison 

to play. 

In reality, the bow is a 

strategic position from 

which a wolf can move 

quickly in any direction — 

a good position to be in 

when you are facing 1500 

pounds of angry bison! 

Check out more wolf facts 

at www.wolfpark.org! 

WATCH THE HUNT 

View effective antipredator 

behavior by bison in the wolfbison 

demonstration each 

Sunday at 1:00 pm, May- 

November. 

HOWL WITH THE PACK 

Hear wolves howl from less than 

10 feet away during Howl 

Nights, Friday May-November, 

Saturday year-round, at 7:30 

pm. 

MEET A WOLF 

Meet a wolf, fox or coyote faceto-face 

via our Adopt-A-Wolf 

program. (See page 4 for more 

details!) 

Wolf Park also features guided tours, educational 

programs, talks on behavior and communication, 

"fox talks", wolf behavior and photography 

seminars, videos, slideshows, kids' activities and 

volunteer programs, a gift shop, and much more. 

Check out our web site, www.wolfpark.org, for 

more information! 

Join the pack -- become a member of Wolf Park 

and get up close and personal with one of the 

world’s most misunderstood predators! 

Directions to Wolf Park: 

To reach WOLF PARK from Interstate 65, take the exit for Indiana State Road 

43 North (Brookston, West Lafayette Exit # 178). Go north on 43 a mile to 

State Road 225. Turn right (east) and go about 2 miles directly into Battle 

Ground. Drive straight through town, cross the railroad tracks and stay to the 

left. Drive one long block to Jefferson St. and turn left. Follow Jefferson St. 

about 1 1/2 miles until you come to a large sign on your right for WOLF PARK. 

We are just 1/4 mile up the gravel drive. 

Marion gets a new perspective. 


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Editor in Chief: Erich Klinghammer, Ph.D., Director Editor: Jessica Willard Photographer: Monty Sloan 

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