Farewell Socrates - Wolf Park

WolfPark.org 

Summer 2008 

Wolf Park is a not for profit 

organization dedicated to 

improving the lives of wolves 

in captivity and in the wild 

through behavioral research 

and education. 

Wolf Park was founded by 

Erich Klinghammer, Ph.D, Director 

in 1972. 

Farewell Socrates 

by Pat Goodmann 

Socrates was born to 

Altair and Chinook on 

April 9, 1993. Though 

both his parents were 

black, Socrates wound up 

with the gray-brown color 

more typical of wolves. It 

made him the stand-out 

pup in his litter – the only 

light colored one in a 

passel of black pups. 

He inherited Chinook’s temper 

and tendency to solve his 

problems by biting. He didn’t 

like being restrained by 

humans. Once, while he 

gnawed a chewy at the end of a 

wolf - bison demonstration, he 

warned me not to put a leash on 

him. I thought I could get away 

with leashing him anyway. Then 

I thought one of his teeth might 

go through my hand. In the 

following weeks, I spent a lot of 

interactions knitting our relationship 

back together. 

He didn’t like being restrained 

by wolves anymore than he 

liked being restrained by 

humans. When Socrates was a 

young pup, Chinook came 

behind him and put his mouth 

over Tease’s shoulders. 

Chinook’s jaws almost met 

around Socrates’ little chest. 

Socrates’ eyes grew huge; 

he shuddered, and then, 

enraged, attacked Chinook. 

“DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT 

AGAIN!” Socrates seemed to 

be telling Chinook. 

During his first September, 

Socrates got hold of a butcher 

knife accidentally dumped out of 

a wheelbarrow 

along with a 

carcass for the 

pack’s dinner. He 

ran around with the 

knife point forward, 

greeting caretaker 

Joe Wolf and me. It 

was a thrilling few 

minutes, straight out 

of a Far Side cartoon, 

until we disarmed him 

before he hurt himself 

or stabbed someone. 

Through their first winter the 

Tease and his littermate Kiri 

were particularly rowdy. It wasn’t 

that they never “asked nicely” 

for what they wanted (they 

sometimes did); it was that they 

wanted things we could not, in 

good conscience, give them— 

like a small, passive, practicum 

student. Tease and Kiri 

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From The Director... 

Dr. Erich Klinghammer 

Isle Royale, an island in Lake 

Superior, is the place where 

Dr. Durward Allen of Purdue 

University began his research 

project on the ecology of wolves 

back in 1958. Wolves had 

crossed over the ice from 

Canada to reach this island. 

Dr. Rolf Peterson was a student 

in my ethology class at Purdue 

University. He did a month-long 

study of the wolf pack at the 

Brookfield Zoological Park near 

Chicago, Illinois. At that time we 

had our first two wolves at Wolf 

Park, Koko and Cassie, and 

Rolf and I worked with them. 

The Isle Royale wolf study was 

a unique natural experiment, an 

enclosed ecosystem with 

predator and prey. Dr. Allen’s 

students assisted with the 

research, beginning with Dave 

Mech and ending with Rolf 

Peterson, and many in between. 

When Dr. Peterson retired a few 

years ago his assistant, Dr. 

John Vucetich, took over the 

project, though Dr. Peterson is 

still involved. 

In 1968 I came to Purdue 

University, when I met and 

became a colleague and friend 

of Dr. Allen, a professor in the 

wildlife department. In February 

of 1969 he took me to Isle 

Royale where Rolf Peterson 

was collecting his data for his 

Ph.D. research on wolves and 

moose. The winter research 

lasted from January to March 

for ten weeks each year. During 

the summer moose carcasses 

not examined in the winter were 

sought out and studied. 

Soon after arriving on the 

island, Don Murray, the pilot of 

the single- engine, two-seater 

Champ landed. I exchanged 

places with Rolf, and we were 

off to observe a pack of wolves 

on the ice along the south shore 

of the island. Don flew about 

15 feet above the ice and about 

40 feet from the wolf pack. They 

were so used to the plane that 

they showed no reaction to its 

presence. I remember seeing 

the black alpha male and the 

foxy-headed female who had a 

limp on her left fore-leg. The 

low-ranking wolves found a 

moose who just stood between 

two trees. The moose did not 

move and the wolves moved on. 

The alpha pair ignored the 

moose. She was in estrus and 

he was attending her. 

I stayed a week, and had many 

memorable experiences with Dr. 

Allen, Rolf and Don. I tracked a 

moose and found him resting in 

the forest and took his picture. 

The last weekend in July 2008 

there was a celebration of the 

50th anniversary of the wolf 

research on Isle Royale. For 

health reasons I could not 

attend the festivities. However, 

staff member Monty Sloan and 

volunteer Tom O’Dowd 

represented Wolf Park, and 

presented a donation of $1000 

from Wolf Park to the research 

program. More information on 

the event is in this issue on 

page 9 of this newsletter. 

You may remember that 

Dr. Doug Smith, who is in 

charge of the wolf research in 

Yellowstone National Park, 

got his start at Wolf Park as 

a puppy mother about twenty 

years ago. From here he went 

to Isle Royale and worked 

under Dr. Peterson, which gave 

Doug some of the valuable 

experience that made him an 

excellent candidate to work on 

the Yellowstone wolf project. 

Thus, we at Wolf Park study 

captive wolves, but we have 

close ties with the field research 

on Isle Royale and Yellowstone 

National Park. 

If you really want to learn about 

wolves, spend some time at 

Wolf Park observing our wolves 

up close, and then when you go 

to Yellowstone and watch them 

in the wild from afar, you have a 

sense of what you are seeing. 

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Linda Thurston and 

Nathan Varley Visit Wolf Park 

On July 8 wolf experts 

Linda Thurston and 

Nathan Varley visited Wolf 

Park. Linda has taught wolf 

behavior seminars with our 

own Pat Goodmann at the 

Yellowstone Institute. Linda 

and Nathan are professional 

wildlife biologists who live 

outside Yellowstone National 

Park. They have a business 

called the Yellowstone Wolf 

Tracker, and they act as guides 

for visitors to the Yellowstone 

ecosystem, helping them learn 

about and view wildlife, 

especially wolves. 

They have real live wild wolves 

where they live, which naturally 

means they don’t normally get 

the chance to see wolves closer 

than about a mile. So… we 

introduced them to our pack. 

After they were good and 

muddy from the wolves greeting 

them, Nathan and Linda gave a 

talk about what’s happening in 

the Northern Rockies for our 

staff, volunteers and interns. It’s 

great to get information from the 

people who live and work there. 

It’s a different perspective from 

the news reporters who don’t 

Delisting Halted 

On July 18 the delisting of the 

wolves in the Northern Rockies 

Distinct Population Segment 

was overturned. This includes 

the wolves living in Montana, 

Idaho, Wyoming, and parts of 

several neighboring states. 

U.S. District Judge Donald 

Molloy granted a preliminary 

injunction reversing the delisting 

of wolves while the entire case 

is being heard and also said the 

plaintiffs were likely to succeed 

in a majority of their claims. He 

said that a coalition of environmental 

groups was accurate in 

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have the 

biology 

background. 

Here are the people who are 

actually doing the research that 

the others are reporting on. 

Linda and Nathan talked about 

how wolves are giving a great 

economic boost to the region 

surrounding Yellowstone due to 

the increase in tourism. They 

also talked a lot about what is 

being done to mitigate conflict 

between wolves and humans, 

and about research being 

conducted on the effects of 

wolves on the ecosystem. 

Thank you Linda and Nathan, 

we look forward to seeing 

you again! 

To learn more about our 

guests, go to their web site: 

www.wolftracker.com. 

its concerns regarding the long 

term survival of this newly 

recovered population, and that 

the wolves were being put in 

jeopardy under the management 

of these states. 

The ruling stated that the U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service acted 

in an arbitrary and capricious 

manner when it removed wolves 

in the Northern Rockies Region 

from the endangered species 

list in March 2008. 

For more details, go to the 

Defenders of Wildlife web site, 

www.defenders.org.

Main Pack Updates 

by Pat Goodmann 

Tristan continues to invite new 

people to scratch him, and to 

ride herd on the boys and 

Kailani. He would like to go on 

more wolf-bison demonstrations, 

but at his age, ten, we are 

reluctant to put him in the field 

with young bison who are 

frankly looking for wolves to 

trample flat. At home, all the 

wolves show deference toward 

him but when he intervenes in 

ritualized fights among the boys, 

he must wade right in and 

usually push them, swat them or 

put his mouth on them before 

they break off doing unto each 

other and submit to Tris. 

Wolfgang has been dealing 

with questions from Wotan, 

such as “How come you’re 

number 2? What makes you so 

great? Huh? Huh? Huh?” So far 

he has been able to give 

definitive answers to those 

questions, though Wotan has 

not given up asking them. 

For the time being, Monty foiled 

Wolfgang’s attempts at pickpocketry 

with a new bait bag 

which actually stays closed. 

Ruedi and Wolfgang have both 

Kailani 

tried unsuccessfully to open it. 

Now they will have to work 

honestly for a living. 

Kailani has been allowed some 

brief drive-bys with volunteers 

with whom she hadn’t had 

contact for weeks or months, 

and also allowed very brief 

periods of greeting seminarians 

and then quickly sent to pose 

on the root ball or led off to 

enjoy “spa time” in the holding 

pen. She is still too prone to 

threaten newbies, and maybe 

some oldbies, to be taken off the 

restricted contact list though. 

Also we have noticed that the 

males are more relaxed and 

genial when Miss Demeanor is 

off having “spa time.” 

Ruedi and Renki are still the 

lowest ranking members of the 

pack. For some reason Renki 

wound up in Kailani’s bad 

graces. She will occasionally 

rush in and pinch him hard 

when he is down; formerly she 

reserved this treatment for 

Wotan alone. When Ruedi and 

Renki are in the pack, Ruedi 

appears to be dominant, but he 

seldom throws his weight 

around. When they have a play 

date together with Ayla, Renki 

can dominate Ruedi. 

We have seen very little of 

Renki’s alter ego, Binky, this 

spring, but the Binkster made a 

fast cameo appearance in June 

when Renki had been resting 

contentedly with Gale in a 

narrow strip of shade along the 

fence. Kailani spoiled the little 

Peaceable Kingdom tableau by 

dragging Sunday dinner, a small 

calf, up on Gale’s other side. 


While Kailani ate, unworried by 

Gale’s proximity to the calf, 

Renki’s eyes hardened. He did 

not get up but he began to 

pinch and mouth Gale’s hand 

and arm, suggesting that she 

leave because if she stayed 

near the calf he’d get mad, and 

she wouldn’t 

like him 

mad. Gale, 

aware that 

he was 

implying 

there would 

be a transformation, 

shortly, from 

cuddly 

Renki, to 

“Hulk 

smash!” did 

not answer 

directly. She simply beckoned 

Wolfgang over. Wolfgang 

sauntered up and, without 

even looking at Renki, stood 

over him and enjoyed a nice 

greeting with Gale. Renki’s 

facial expression changed 

with comic rapidity: from 

Tyranosaurus Renks (my, 

what big teeth he has!) to 

Binky, in the space of a heart 

beat and an eye blink. Binky, 

excels at looking puppyish and 

endearing and I wondered if 

he might suck on Gale’s finger, 

while busy looking sweet 

and harmless! 

Wolfgang 

Tristan 

Renki (Above) 

Wotan (Left) 

Ruedi (Below) 

Birth 

Name Sex Year 

Tristan Male 1998 

Kailani Female 2004 

Renki Male 2004 

Ruedi Male 2004 

Wolfgang Male 2005 

Wotan Male 2005

Our East Lake Wolves 

Kiri lost Socrates, his 

brother and constant 

companion since they 

were together in the womb. 

Socrates died, without 

euthanasia, in the same pen 

with Kiri. Kiri had 

undoubtedly discovered his 

brother’s body before we did, 

and came to what ever understanding 

he was able to reach. 

When we removed Socrates he 

showed no further interest and 

just wanted his ears rubbed. 

With the passing of Tease, Kiri 

seems to be planning a debut 

as a social butterfly, with an 

expanded social circle. 

Echo’s hindquarters were 

strong enough for her to insist 

on a walk around the loup trail 

this spring. The day was 

hotter than ideal for an elderly 

lady wolf’s half mile excursion, 

but she discovered that the 

education building has air conditioning 

and she insisted on a 

rest break there. We let her 

literally cool her heels indoors 

until she indicated she was 

sufficiently refreshed and 

ready to resume her leisurely 

progress around the pond. 

Eclipse shed out rapidly 

thanks to Monty’s 

Revolution Rake with 

revolving tines. She 

enjoys scratches and 

ear rubs from familiar 

people. We have been 

able to get fly cream on 

her ears and give her 

vaccinations without 

problems. The interns 

are, as usual, trying their 

best to win her over. 


With the advent of mowing season and wolf-bison demonstrations, 

Ayla’s play dates with Renki and Ruedi have increased. She enjoys 

hours of fun and companionship from her brothers when we mow 

the Turtle Lake Enclosure, while Renki and Ruedi seem highly 

pleased at having someone, anyone, submit to them. This year, a 

very bright bison-testing light bulb has gone on over Ayla’s head. 

To look at some of her efforts working the herd you would no 

believe that she had fewer chances to practice her skills than Renki 

or Wolfgang or Wotan. 

Like all the wolves we tried it on, Orca adored being raked 

with Monty's special dog rake. Under the influence of its two 

rows of revolving tines, he lost veritable continents of winter 

underwear. Sandy Prantl, the cranio sacral therapist worked 

on him in July and he let her do a great deal. When we 

though he was done he followed her, leaned into her, and 

begged for more work. It was both touching and comical. Now 

that it's mowing season he gets shifted out of his enclosure, 

either to one across the corridor or a holding pen a little 

farther away. He often has to be lured into the holding pen 

with a treat, such as a pig ear, but to move him across the 

corridor we just need to open gates to both pens and let him 

scurry. Orca is still trying to walk and his right hind 

leg is just not quite able to handle 

its assignment. But as long 

as he has food and 

friends Orca appears 

completely unfazed 

by being bipedal.

Karin is fat. She is also late to shed her winter coat. She looks like a critter with Cushings 

disease, but her blood work indicates that she does not have it. We are trying to diet her 

without making Apollo skinnier. Since she is far more interested in food than he, this is a 

challenge. So far, cutting back on carcass parts and hand feeding them Pet Botanicals 

through the fence merely demonstrated that Karin thinks just about anything is food, but 

Apollo, who does not need to diet, thinks this nice healthy food that most of the wolves like 

a lot, is not, in fact, edible. 

Miska and Marion are living 

across from the coyotes. They 

squabble with each other and 

occasionally threaten the 

coyotes, who are very 

interested when the Alphas 

squabble. Marion did very well 

on some cognitive testing by Dr. 

Wynne and his graduate 

students Monique and Nicole. 

Miska was invited not to take 

part after he pulled a testing 

apparatus apart. 


Erin finally left her pretend puppies to their own devices. She stopped 

guarding places against us and Chetan is more willing to eat his pilllaced 

treat boluses himself instead of letting Erin have them. She has 

been letting us put fly repellent ointment on her ears, which helps 

protect the second tastiest set of wolf ears at the park from biting flies. 

Like the other wolves, both Fluffies like Monty’s Revolution Rake, for 

help in getting out of their winter underwear. Erin is taking a long time 

to shed and as of this writing the old, dried curled up guard hairs 

along the back of her neck and shoulders look like a dead permanent 

wave. Chetan shed out faster and though he has developed some hot 

spots they went away as soon as I told them I had a Vetalog shot 

waiting for Chetan if they did not dry up promptly and go away.

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attempted to pull her down and 

drag her around, hoping to push 

the “on” button, sure that she 

would squeak and run about for 

their entertainment if only they 

could find it. 

Though they did not find the 

student’s button, Socrates 

decided deliberately intimidating 

new people was fun. 

Fortunately, he could be 

distracted easily; I often said 

he fluttered from one thing 

to another with the attention 

span of a cabbage butterfly. 

Distraction has its limits as a 

management tool, though so we 

were very grateful when board 

member Gladys Wright donated 

the price of a holding pen in 

which Socrates could be shut 

while we took new interns, 

volunteers, “seminarians,” and 

sponsors in with the rest of 

the pack. 

Socrates was skilled at forcing 

us to interact with him by doing 

things we could not afford to 

ignore. When we brought in 

buckets to clean the enclosure 

he tried to steal them. We 

countered by offering him wolf 

droppings “politely” in the clean 

up tongs. After backing up in 

disgust on many occasions, one 

day Socrates countered our 

move by just eating the scat 

when offered. Then he grinned. 

(Well, not really...) 


The first time they saw their 

parents tie, Tease and Kiri 

displayed what looked like a 

touching concern, running back 

and forth between the alphas 

and the approaching humans, 

like Lassie guiding rescuers to 

little Timmy. (“Humans, humans, 

hurry up! Chinook and Altair are 

stuck! Help! Help!”) Once they 

had witnessed a mating or two 

though, their concern faded. 

Socrates pestered Altair 

incessantly, showing that inborn 

behavior can be supplemented 

and made more effective by an 

individual wolf’s learning. If 

Socrates had some instinctive, 

“theoretical” knowledge of what 

to do, until he had tried and 

failed repeatedly, he did not 

seem to understand that he 

could not join in while Chinook 

was currently tied with Altair. By 

the 1995 breeding season, 

however, Socrates understood 

the process. He and Kiri both 

mated with Karin on the day we 

think she conceived her litter. 

Because Chetan looks so much 

like Socrates, we all suspect 

that he, not Kiri, is Chetan’s 

biological father. 

In mid-October of 1993 we 

moved the pack into the new 

Turtle Lake enclosure and the 

wolves explored their palatial 

new home of almost seven 

acres. Because friends of the 

Klinghammers had fished in the 

pond for years, we searched the 

shore thoroughly for detritus 

before moving the wolves. A 

couple of weeks later, Socrates 

was hunting small prey at a 

brush pile well back from the 

water when he suddenly reared 

up, screaming and pawing at his 

mouth—a fish hook and long 

metal lure were stuck in his lip. 

We called Tease into the 

“airlock,” and he seemed glad to 

see us, lying down and licking 

us as we gave him comforting 

tummy rubs. Every few minutes 

though, he became agitated and 

alternated between pawing at 

his mouth and mouthing my 

arm. Though injected with a 

tranquilizer someone had 

retrieved from the clinic, he still 

had to be held down while 

Dr. Klinghammer forced the 

hook all the way through his lip 

so the barbed tip could be cut 

off. Socrates bit Jill Moore quite 

hard through her gloves, but her 

hand was okay, and by evening, 

he was running around as if 

nothing had happened. 

After we lost Chinook to heart 

disease in the summer of 1996, 

Orca became alpha male. That 

summer, Socrates’ last with the 

main pack, was particularly

trying, partly because Socrates 

had an inflated notion of how 

well we could protect him from 

Orca. Once, while I lectured 

visitors, Socrates came over 

and velcroed to me as Orca 

approached us. Socrates curled 

his lip and growled. Orca barely 

deigned to glance at Tease; 

instead, he grinned up at me 

and, turning abruptly, tamped 

Socrates into the fence with his 

rump before strutting off. 

Weeks later, we removed 

Socrates to East Lake, and he 

seemed to realize he was safe 

from Orca and the rest of the 

pack behind two layers of fence. 

“I’ve never seen a wolf stick its 

thumbs in its ears and wiggle its 

fingers at the other wolves 

before” remarked then 

managing director Gary 

Kyrouac. Upon Socrates 

arrival, he and Vega 

immediately exchanged 

affectionate greetings 

through the fence and she 

allowed him to move right in. 

Dr. Klinghammer asked how 

they accepted each other. I 

told him that when we left 

they were measuring floor 

space and moving her 

furniture around so his would 

fit in too. Vega had explained 

to him that she was Queen 

of the World, and Socrates 

was okay with that. Soon we 

moved Kiri to East Lake, 

changing the social 

dynamics. The boys, 

especially Socrates, 

sometimes picked on Vega, so 

she was not able to live with 

them full time. She did make it 

obvious when she wanted to get 

away from them, though, so 

they had sleep overs and tea 

parties, and—occasionally— 

long house parties, but were not 

a permanent trio. 

Even in retirement, Socrates 

was a handful; had he lived 

alone, I think he would have 

likely contracted “alpha-itis”: a 

tendency to be dangerously 

domineering toward any human 

or wolf who enters the 

enclosure. Fortunately, Kiri was 

a benevolent dictator, and 

Socrates remained grateful for 

his human friends. When they 

were ten years old, their first 

puppy mother, Karin Bloch, 

went in with them. They had 

seen her through the fence 

every spring when she came 

back to raise subsequent litters. 

I think they remembered her, 


because they seemed very 

happy to have her there, gently 

soliciting social grooming over 

and over. 

At twelve, Socrates visibly 

slowed down. All his life he had 

disliked injections, but when he 

had a severe bout of enteritis in 

the fall of 2006 we had to give 

him lots of subcutaneous and IV 

fluids, injectable antibiotics, and 

anti-nausea medication, 

because he could not even 

keep water down. He 

recovered, shaky, and his 

appetite slowly worked its way 

back to normal, but with an 

increased mellowness in the 

face of hypodermic needles. He 

was often gently affectionate, 

wanting to link forearms with 

human friends and lick faces. 

In his fight with cancer from the 

summer of 2006 to June 2007, 

Socrates displayed the 

toughness that marks wolves. 

He kept eating and taking an 

interest in life. The hardest part 

of taking care of Socrates, for 

me, was focusing on him, and 

how he felt, day by day, rather 

than simply thinking “his 

prognosis is poor so why not 

euthanize him now.” I knew that, 

eventually, this fight would end 

in the graveyard. But eventually 

everyone ends up in the 

graveyard, so we let Socrates 

enjoy each day as it came. On 

some days he obviously did not 

feel well, but he came out of it 

and perked up. On his last day 

he approached the fence in the 

morning, eager for a hot dog 

treat, looking as if he was 

prepared to live indefinitely. 

Sometime in the afternoon he 

died, possibly in his sleep. In 

the end, the cantankerous old 

geezer went in his own time and 

in his own way. 

Socrates is survived by his 

brothers Kiri, Apollo, and Miska, 

his niece Marion, his cousin 

Echo, his former mate Karin, his 

probable son Chetan, and 

probable grandsons, Wolfgang 

and Wotan. 

Editor: Catherine Ozment

Wolf Park Goes to Budapest 

by Monty Sloan 

The Canine Science 

Forum on dogs and 

related canids was held 

July 5-9, 2008 in 

Budapest, Hungary. The 

conference focused on 

current behavioral 

research conducted on 

wild canines as well as 

domesticated dogs. 

Dr. Raymond Coppinger, 

who conducts annual dog 

behavior seminars at Wolf Park, 

has often bemoaned the fact 

that very little behavioral 

research was being conducted 

on one of the most accessible 

and common animals around 

us, the dog. That has started to 

change. In fact one of the talks 

at the conference addressed 

this very issue and showed how 

there has been a great increase 

in papers published on dog 

behavior and ethology over the 

past 10 years. 

The conference was opened by 

keynote speakers Adám Miklósi 

(with “Dogs and their people: 

Love is not enough!”) and Jane 

Packard (with “Man meets wolf: 

ethological perspectives”). 

Following the opening talks, the 

days were filled with a series of 

15 minute presentations on 

dogs, wolves, dingos, foxes, 

and then dogs again. At lunch 

there were also presentations 

which were less academic, 

ranging from “paragility” (dog 

agility training with physically 

challenged handlers) and dog 

dancing, to police dogs and 

even a socialized wolf from the 

Horatius Animal Coordination 

team (horkai.com). 

There were also many fun 

and interesting scientific posters 

at the conference. Monty 

presented “Long-Term Captive 

Wolf Socialization at Wolf Park”, 

a poster he helped create with 

fellow staff members Pat, Gale 

and Holly, and which can be 

downloaded from wolfpark.org. 

This poster was not only 

informative, but beautifully put 

together by volunteer – and 

professional graphic designer – 

N. Beth Line. It attracted quite a 

lot of attention and positive 

comments from the participants 

at the conference. 

The days were long, but very 

well organized and with mostly 

short lectures, frequent coffee 

breaks (and they really know 

how to make great coffee over 

there) and a variety of entertainment. 

Many of the people were 

not the typical folks who 

frequent wolf conferences in the 

U.S. and Monty met and made 

contacts with scientists who 

showed a lot of interest in what 

we are doing at Wolf Park, 

including the possibility for 

doing research. 

Thanks goes to one of our 

long time members and 

supporters, Dr. Nicola Osypka, 

who sponsored Monty’s trip to 

the conference. 

To learn more about the 

conference, go to their website: 

http://csf2008.elte.hu/ 


Interns, Practicums & Volunteers 

Every year, some extremely 

nice people descend at Wolf 

Park, offering the 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, 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 library, and 

talk with the staff. 

Blaze Barry is an intern from 

Sewanee, Tennessee. He just 

completed his junior year at the 

University of Alabama, 

Huntsville where he is studying 

Biology. Blaze will pursue 

graduate studies in Animal 

Behavior. He has worked with 

animals both on a farm and 

private reserve. Blaze likes 

playing guitar and photography. 

Cynthia Fell, from Sharpsville, 

Pennsylvania, was with us from 

the middle of June to the middle 

of July for her second 

practicum. She is an 8th grade 

math teacher with an interest in 

wild life. Cynthia considers 

returning to college to study 

Wildlife Biology. She has years 

of experience working with 

animals on her grandparents 

farm. Cindy hopes to increase 

her knowledge of wolf behavior 

and the care of wolves while at 

Wolf Park. 

Brinn Granger is from 

Indianapolis. She currently 

attends Hanover College in 

Madison, Indiana, and intends 

to apply to vet schools. Brinn 

has worked in a vet clinic for 3 

years and the Indianapolis Zoo 

the past two summers. She is 

exploring the possibility of 

working in a wildlife refuge or 

zoo upon graduation. Brinn 

hopes her internship at Wolf 

Park will help with this decision. 

She likes to read and participate 

in youth mission trips. 

Tricia Kruse is also from 

Indianapolis. She graduated in 

May from Northland College in 

Wisconsin with a degree in 

Behavioral Psychology. Tricia 

has done an internship with us 

in the past and is here as a 

practicum doing a howl study. 

Her study compares and 

correlates the animals’ behavior 

before, during, and after a howl. 

Tricia hopes her observations 

help assist researchers in the 

field with their howl studies. She 

aspires to become a wildlife 

researcher, specifically with 

wolves. 

Jacob Levy is an intern from 

New York state, via Ashland, 

Wisconsin. He just finished his 

junior year at Northland College 

where he is pursuing a degree 

in Psychology with an emphasis 

on Animal Behavior and 

Motivational Sciences. Jacob 

volunteers at his local animal 

shelter training and caring for 

their animals. His long term 

goals are to work as an animal 

rehab specialist or a handler in 

a zoo. Jacob also enjoys acting. 

Miranda Vogel is an intern from 

Olathe, Kansas. She recently 

graduated from the University of 

Missouri in Kansas City with a 

major in Theatre and a minor in 

Geography. Miranda has 

volunteered at the Cedar Cove 

Wild Feline Conservatory in 

Louisberg, Kansas. Miranda is 

passionate about investing her 

time and efforts into the care of 

animals and hopes her time here 

will assist her in exploring opportunities 

to work with wild life. 

In April, the beautifully renovated Lafayette Theater hosted Wolf Park 

night at the movies. This spring they were showcasing a 

different classic movie every Thursday. “Our” 

movie was Hoosiers, an Indiana classic 

involving basketball. Spurlocks, a local 

restaurant, supplied pork tenderloin sandwiches, 

another Indiana classic. The proceeds from 

dinner were donated to support Wolf Park. Our 

thanks go out to the good folks at Lafayette 

Theater and Spurlocks for helping us and providing 

Lafayette with a great way to see movies in style.

Isle Royale’s 50th Anniversary Celebration 

Back row: Doug Smith, Don Glaser, Rolf Peterson, David Mech, Wendell Johnson, Rick 

Page. Next row: Leah Vucetich, Mary Hindelang. Seated: Don Murray, John Vucetich, 

Peter Jordan, Brian McLaren. Front: Candy Peterson, Joe Scheidler. 

Tom O’Dowd and Monty Sloan 

attended the festivities on Isle 

Royale this July as scientists 

celebrated fifty years of 

research into wolf and moose 

interaction. It was a wonderful 

experience and though they did 

not see moose or wolves, they 

did see a lot of old friends and 

make many new ones. 

Back in 1958, Dr. Durward 

Allen, then a faculty member 

at Purdue University (where 

Dr. Klinghammer was also a 

professor), established what 

was then supposed to be a tenyear 

study of the wolves and 

moose of Isle Royale. The study 

lasted much longer than ten 

years and continues through 

today, the longest continuous 

predator-prey study in the 

world. L. David Mech, Rolf O. 

Peterson, Doug Smith and now 

John A. Vucetich, along with 

many students and EarthWatch 

volunteers, have made possible 

a unique and important long 

term study on a relatively 

‘simplified’ ecosystem where 

there is one large predator, the 

wolf, and one large prey animal, 

the moose. 

Dr. Allen sadly passed away 

back in 1997, but the rest of the 

researchers and crew were 

there, including pilots Don 

Murray and Don Glaser (much 

of the research on Isle Royale is 

done by visual spotting from 

airplanes). These two pilots 

have an impressive record. Don 

Murray flew from 1959-1979 

and Don Glaser has been flying 

since 1979. Through thousands 

of hours flying low to the 

ground, allowing researchers to 

count and observe the wolves 

and moose, they never had an 

accident. Both original planes 

still exist and both were flown in 

on Friday carrying the pilots and 

their families. 

Participants were also treated 

to George Desort's documentary 

Fortunate Wilderness, 

which has clips of Wolf Park’s 

wolves filmed by Tom O’Dowd. 

For a preview of the film, see 

www.isinglasspictures.com/. 

To learn more about 

Isle Royale, 

visit www.isleroyalewolf.org. 

Gale’s News of the Small By Gale Motter 

Photo by Gale Motter 

Because my camera has such a 

good macro lens built into it I 

have been making the acquaintance 

of many of the overlooked 

little critters around us. 

There are some beautiful, funny, 

and downright strange beings 

all around us. I’d like to 

introduce you to some of them. 


Member News By Amy Beaupre 

Long time members Elizabeth 

Armour and Philip Rakita 

visited Wolf Park in May. We 

have lots of members– what 

made this visit remarkable? This 

wonderful couple had been 

sponsoring a wolf at Wolf Park 

continuously since 1974 – and 

had never been here to see a 

wolf until this year!! 

Wolf Park’s Adopt a Wolf 

Program provides the 

opportunity for individuals to 

sponsor one of our resident 

animals. One of the unique 

aspects of our Adopt a Wolf 

Program is the opportunity to 

personally visit with the 

individual that the sponsor 

chooses, provided it is safe for 

them and their adopted animal. 

Some folks rush to schedule a 

visit soon after beginning their 

sponsorship, as the “perk” of 

“adopting” a wolf or other animal 

of choice is often what 

encourages them to select this 

membership versus a traditional 

single or family membership. 

However, some members wait a 

lifetime for a moment like this! 

Elizabeth and Philip waited 

longer than several lifetimes– 

wolf lifetimes that is. For 34 

years this couple has been 

This little spider, maybe all of 

half an inch long, goes by the 

name Tutelina. He has a habit 

of waving around his first pair of 

legs, the result of which is a 

little like Tai Chi in miniature. 

The males have a funky “hairdo” 

that reminds me of some of the 

1950’s slicked back styles. They 

generously supporting Wolf 

Park, having never stepped 

foot on the premises, let alone 

having met the wolves they 

sponsored! Elizabeth and 

Philip decided to make a trip 

to Chicago from North Carolina 

for a special event because 

she desperately wanted to 

see the Park, and it was right 

on their way. 

Their visit happened to coincide 

with one of our 5 day seminars, 

but despite the busy schedule of 

our staff, we were all thrilled to 

know Elizabeth and Philip were 

coming after all this time. “We 

were warmly greeted by everyone, 

especially Pat, who I was 

delighted to finally meet after all 

these years of “knowing her” 

from the newsletter”, Elizabeth 

said. Their visit included the 

educational safety video, a tour 

of the park with Monty, who for 

so many years brought them the 

story of Wolf Park, a visit to see 

Kiri through the fence, and a 

rendez-vous with Ayla, who 

stood in for Kiri for their sponsor 

visit. Elizabeth and Philip 

started their sponsorship with 

Cassie two years after the Park 

had opened. When Cassie died, 

they had to choose a new wolf 

to sponsor. 

Elizabeth says she was 

“smitten” with an adorable tiny 

wolf pup, Kiri, who needed 

“adopting”. Kiri is now 15 

years old! 

It is this kind of generosity of 

spirit that has kept Wolf Park 

thriving all these years. Thank 

you Elizabeth and Philip, and 

all you other members out 

there doing the same to keep 

us going. If you have a story 

like this you would like to share 

with our members, be sure to 

let us know! 

also are metallic and shine in 

the sunlight. 

So why don’t we notice these 

little guys? They spend their 

time among the flowers hunting 

ants from the underside of 

leaves. And they are half an 

inch long...

Annual Watermelon Summer Party 

At Wolf Park’s annual 

Watermelon Party, not 

all the wolves were on 

their best behavior. 

The party was held on 

June 28th this year, a 

tradition that includes 

stuffing watermelons with treats 

and giving them to the wolves, 

foxes, and even the bison. As 

usual, both the melons and the 

tasty treats inside were a hit! 

The wolves began their 

excitement upon seeing the 

melons being lined up by the 

fence, or put in a wheelbarrow 

near their enclosure’s entrance. 

Their excitement manifested in 

some not- very- polite and 

rather graceless behavior. Miska 

took advantage of Pat’s full 

hands as she juggled a melon 

and a megaphone, when he 

roughly pulled the tasty orb from 

her hands. Ayla dove off of the 

top of a hut 

into Monty and 

her melon 

which resulted 

in a result 

analogous to 

pool balls on a 

billiards table: 

she went in 

one direction, 

and her 

watermelon 

propelled in 

another. Monty reported that he 

stayed clean in the clash while 

Ayla reclaimed her prizes, the 

succulent melon and its juicy 

treats. While most, if not all, of 

the melons were eventually 

scent marked, Wolfgang pooped 

in his, provoking quite a reaction 

from the audience. 

Thank You to Our Watermelon Donors 

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ED LIPSMAN 

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Some of the other wolves 

handled their summer treat with 

a bit more grace. Orca claimed 

his indulgence and scurried off 

making a valiant effort to use 

his hind limbs. Echo, the 

Park’s grand dame, delicately 

dismembered her watermelon 

and selected her treats with her 

usual pickiness. Kiri leisurely 

enjoyed his melon. 

Even the bison got a melon! 

It was primarily enjoyed by a 

cow and a couple of calves, 

including the rind. Remnants 

of the melon were found 

the next day during the wolfbison 

demonstration. 

The foxes too enjoyed their 

watermelons, as they are known 

to. Monty was able to get a 

great picture of Basil (Left), 

nibbling on a melon, looking 

younger than his years. Pat 

wisely commented that it is 

easy to think that watermelons 

contain fluid from the fountain 

of youth since eating them 

makes her feel like a kid again. 

How true! 

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Thank You 

to Our Supporters! 

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Wolf Park Fox Updates by Pat Goodmann 

Devon has been stealing mice. 

Probably she does not see it 

that way; Amanda says that 

Devon “never saw a mouse that 

was not hers – no matter who 

was holding it.” 

Amanda continued to help 

Basil with his shedding. He was 

having a little trouble in the 

personal grooming department, 

so between scissors and a rake 

borrowed from Monty, Basil 

has lost his fur coat. 

Unfortunately Basil got more 

help than he really wanted. 

He is in a State of Pique, rather 

like someone who went into 

a hair salon for a trim and 

wound up getting four inches, 

that they had not intended to 

part with, whacked off. 

Despite his age, Basil is still 

active. Amanda reports: “Not too 

long ago, bionic boy was 

practicing for the Iron Man and 

was spied racing up, down and 

all around the Den. Rapid 

ascents, hairpin turns, sprints, 

dashes and long jumps – he 

had it all going on. In order to 

maintain his trim physique, Basil 

refrains from indulging in more 

than four or five mice meals at a 

time, but he will always accept 

handouts for later.” 

Ember has thrilled several 

people by coming up to them 

and making contact. Amanda 

noted that volunteer Sheri 

Tatlock has done a superb job 

of getting the foxes, including 

Ember, to come up to her. 

Wolf Park Coyote Updates by Pat Goodmann 


We continue to work at training 

Willow and Twister. They enjoy 

it, we enjoy it. The difficulty lies, 

not so much in getting the 

desired behavior, but in getting 

it when we want it. Both yotes 

are easily distracted. While we 

have all seen them concentrate 

on producing behaviors on cue, 

we have also seen them display 

conflict, trying to divide their 

focus between the work at 

hand, and another person 

outside the enclosure. When 

they show signs of conflict we 

can’t count so much on them 

going through their training 

routines. For this reason we are 

still leery of taking people they 

have no track record of being 

good with into the enclosure. 

Even if we told them to stay on 

station while we brought in a 

newbie, we don’t think we could 

count on the yotes doing as 

they are told. Yet. 

But both are 

making progress. 

Donate to the Mice Fund! 

Basil, Devon and Ember are 

looking for some generous 

people to make a donation so 

Wolf Park can buy them some 

mice. A bag of 50 frozen mice 

costs around $25.00. This is 

enough for the foxes to snack 

on mice for one week (or a 

single meal, if you ask Devon). 

As an added bonus, if you 

happen to be a fox sponsor, on 

your next visit, if we have mice 

in stock, you may join in the fun 

by helping to give the foxes 

their most prized treat! 

As always, donations can be 

mailed, phoned, or done on the 

online gift shop at www.wolfparkstore.com. 

Simply write in 

the comments section that you 

want to give the foxes some 

mice. Our fuzzy friends are 

looking forward to hearing from 

you! (Should we get more mice 

than we can handle, we will use 

your kind donation toward other 

ways of improving the lives of 

the resident animals here at 

Wolf Park.) 

Even Twister. I was particularly 

proud of Twister when he did 

some 15 second stays-onstation 

with a group of visitors 

behind him (and outside the 

enclosure). Willow has been 

stalking some of the new interns 

and some of the old ones who 

return as volunteers. Both yotes 

were happy to see puppy dad 

Andrew Miller back for a visit. 

Coyotes (Canis latrans) 

Its Latin name, Canis latrans, means "barking dog." 

Twister (Left) - Male - Born April 3, 2006 

Willow (Above) - Female - Born April 2, 2006

2008 Calendar 

of Events 

Visit WolfPark.org for 

details and updates 

August 

16 Full Moon Howl Night 7:30 pm 

23 Wolf Park After Hours 7:30 pm 

September 

1 Labor Day (Park Open) 1-5pm 


October 

12-18 Wolf Awareness Week 7:30 pm 


25 Pumpkins for Wolves 1-5pm 

November 

14 Full Moon Howl Night 7:30 pm 


30 Park Closes for Season 

December 

13 Santa Visits (Park Open) 1-4 pm 

26 Guided Tours 1-5 pm 

27 Guided Tours 1-5 pm 

Are You a Member of Wolf Park Yet? 

We offer Individual, Family and Special Group Memberships 

Membership Benefits 

• Free entrance into the Park for the year 

• Our Wolf Park quarterly newsletter 

• Invitations to special events 

• Discounts on books in our Gift Shop 

• Being the basis of support for us! 

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April 30 

Visitor Season 

May 1 - 

November 30 

Admission 

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August 

2-3 Overnight Camp for ages 13-15 

12-13 Day Camp for ages 11-15 

October 

6 Photo Seminar 

10-12 Wolf Intensive Weekend Seminar 


20 Full Day Photo Shoot 

November 


14-16 Ray Coppinger Seminar 



December 



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