I just wanted to know which species of critically endangered wolves people perfer zoos to have.
Red Wolves or Mexican grey Wolves
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I'm of the type that the Red Wolf doesn't exist. The Red Wolf, Eastern Coyote, and Timber Wolf are so inter bred they are one the species. The Eastern Wolf, most call it a Coyote but yeah they are still very numerous.
Our Coyotes in rural Alabama look like small wolves and take whitetail. Western Coyotes look like Jackals and take rabbits.
Our Coyotes in rural Alabama look like small wolves and take whitetail. Western Coyotes look like Jackals and take rabbits.
What are the zoos with Mexican Grey Wolves? I already know The living Desert, Brookfield, Minnesota, Oklahoma City, Endangered Wolf Center, Cheyenne Mountain, and Phoenix Zoo have them.
There are about 350 lobos in existence. They are in 50 different institutions which range from Chicago and Minnesota to Puebla, In mexico the zoos in mexico city have the largest number, about 12, with 3 lobitos born last year at zoologico Los coyotes. The wolves are maintained through an international studbook. In the mexico city zoos, there have been lobos from New Mexico ( Albuquerque Zoo ) and Tucson ( Arizona Sonora Desert Museum). Yuma the mother of the Los Coyotes lobitos is from Arizona. Joy, the mother of the lobos at Chapultepec zoo was from New Mexico. There is a small reintroduced population of lobos near Las cruces, New Mexico and in Arizona, but i do not remember what area it is. The exact numbers of the reintroduced lobos in the U.S. is not openly given. An attempt to reintroduce lobos in Mexico was attempted last year in Sonora. 5 lobos were released. It was annouced a few weeks ago that 4 wolves had been poisoned by ranchers and only 1 female remains. Naturalia, an important mexican enviromental group has extensive information on the mexican wolf project on their web page, but it is in spanish. Arizona Docent once mentioned an english webpage that translated the Naturalia info, but i do not remember its name. There are various lobo photos on the mexico galleries, and of course i am a great lobo or mexican wolf fan. The university where i teach participates actively in the lobo mexicano project, so i can give you up to date information when it is publicly available.
@carlos77 Do you know how many zoos breed them? Are the zoos that breed them only in the southwest? The only pack that I know some information on is the one at Brookfield and it is an all siblings pack from the Endangered Wolf Center in Missouri (I think the zoo has 3 males and 5 females which are separated during the breeding season) and before that it was an all male pack.
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I should have mentioned that our university is on vacation now, and that the exact information on the lobos in the US, ( about 250, if i remember well, but these includes reintroduced lobos) i will look up if you remind me in september, though let me see if naturalia has that online, but i think they only list the mexican lobos. In the meantime, it can be mentioned that pairing mexican wolves can be very difficult. For example, Yuma at Los Coyotes was very special with her potential mates, and rejected a few. Finally she accepted an elderly male, Canek, from the zoologico de san juan de aragon. Yuma is a great mother, and her 3 lobitos are growing well. On the other hand Joy at chapultepec zoo, accepted her mate from the very beginning. Joy was also a great mother and raised various lobitos at chapultepec.
jackieo
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Minnesota Zoo no longer has Mexican Grey Wolves. They replaced the exhibit with Dholes.