ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – This is as close as we’re getting today to the dens at the endangered wolf center; it’s puppy season and FOX 2 is learning more about that and the dire wolf.
Just off Highway 44 in Eureka, one can take a trip down a gravel road at the Endangered Wolf Center.
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It is pup season, where nature is taking its course. And If all goes as planned, the center will have Mexican gray wolf pups and American red pups.
“We could have pups arriving in the next two to six weeks,” says Fred Gauna, executive director of Endangered Wolf Center. “Depending on which group it is and when they bred last, It’s an exciting time for us. There are times we have used frozen dog semen to do artificial insemination. We didn’t do that this time because we had natural pairings. But that’s one of the tools in our toolkit where you artificially inseminate them. But the birth is natural, and the mother raises them as a wolf, so they are set up best for success to be a wild wolf.”
Some of which may make their tracks to the Southwest United States, to Arizona and New Mexico.
That’s where wolf pups born at the Endangered Wolf Center have been reintroduced to the wild.
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The nonprofit first started by the late Marlin Perkins and his wife Carol in 1971, sits on an isolated part of land in Eureka.
A different setting than that of the news coming out of Dallas. That’s where Colossal Biosciences say they’ve de-extincted the Dire Wolf—a species that went extinct more than 12 thousand years ago.
The bio team used DNA from a tooth and skull thousands of years old and, in a lab, created the Dire Wolf.
“You have an animal that hasn’t existed on the landscape for a long time,” Gauna said. “But I’ll leave those questions for the genetic ethicists to go back and forth. But any advance in science is great for the conservation effort and any work we do at the center.”
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