Only reason I could come up with was that fact that they appeared to be shut outside during the majority of the day. Male is currently split up from the females and they alternate between the off show house/outdoor compound and the main enclosure, Not sure what the system was at Woburn or the Aspinalls but they certinley wern't hanging around the house to go back in during the short period I spent watching/photographing them
Not sure what the system was at Woburn or the Aspinalls but they certinley wern't hanging around the house to go back in during the short period I spent watching/photographing them
Not sure about Woburn but the enclosures at both Howletts and PL are large and well-vegetated and the wolves are left to their own devices- probably with very little human contact even from the keepers. So maybe they have reverted to a semi-wild existence? At both places visitors can only pass along one perimeter of the enclosure so the wolves can keep right away at the back if they want. I'm thinking maybe the enclosure/ amount of management/people contact may be the clues to these differences.
I've looked in the Woburn gallery and it seems that they weren't actually in a 'drive through' exhibit. They were kept in a enclosure sectioned off from the drive through exhibit but visible. So it's possible PL/Howletts' are kept to their own devices.
