International Wolf Center

We left Osprey Wilds today for Ely, Minnesota and stopped at the International Wolf Center where we spoke an upper level staff member, Krista Harrington. She worked at the Wildlife Science Center when it was a Federal program. I talked to her about her experience there and it just makes me want to work there more!

It is super interesting to hear from different wolf experts and how their message varies. The International Wolf Center provides non-biased information about wolves. Not over glorifying or villainizing them. They prioritized different information as well. We got to sauna later and here are some pictures.

One of the Arctic wolf brothers competing for the breeding male position. All of the wolves at the International Wolf Center are spayed and neutered. As of now, there are four males in the enclosure. Pictured is a three year old Arctic subspecies of the grey wolf.

One of the Arctic wolves in the front and Denali the western subspecies of grey wolf. They are standing over the den where Boltz the northern great plains subspecies of the grey wolf is being kept. His confidence is low right now because the two arctic wolves have targeted him to show their dominance.

Boltz the northern great plains subspecies peaking out of the den. You can see the injury on his forehead. Wolves are very aggressive with each other and the International Wolf Center does a great job of diffusing tension, but they can't stop everything. The number two cause of death for wolves, below human culling, is other wolves.