Three orphaned wolf pups being returned to wild
Published: July 13, 2006
Three wolf pups who were raised by a captive surrogate mother at a Minnesota wildlife center for the past two months are being returned to the wild today in Wisconsin.
The pups are being driven to the Menomonee Indian Reservation near Green Bay to be reunited with their father, a wild gray wolf.
Scientists in Minnesota and Wisconsin hope the biological father will take over parenting duties for the pups, who are almost three months old and were weaned at the Wildlife Science Center outside Forest Lake.
The pups were among five found in a den near their mother’s body after the mother’s radio-tracking collar emitted a signal indicating she had died.
The other two pups died.
The wolf puppies were the first born on tribal land in 75 years.
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