When Daddy woke up in the morning he heard a pack of wolves howling and was surprised how close they sounded. Then later on he realized that the reason was that there was a wolf and bear rescue place really close to us.
We went to visit the bears and wolves. They live here because they got injured or their mamas did. They It is not a zoo where the animals are treated badly or made to learn tricks. It is a learning place and the people who work there don’t even touch the animals so they are having a more natural life.
The best thing about these bears is that they are all grown up bears but they act like baby cub bears because they don’t have to be as responsible at the center as they would have to be in the wild. All of their food is here and their lives are pretty easy so they play and roll around and act silly. One bear was trying to rip down a small tree and was tossing branches in the air. Another one was rolling around on his back, touching his feet like a baby human does.
The wolves moved around the same way that dogs do. Wolves are smarter than dogs, even if you have a very smart dog.
Wolves! I would have loved to have been there with you. Wolves are my passion. I have taught all of my classes about the wolf pack. Did you know that wolves live in packs just like families. There’s an alpha male and an alpha female, like a mom and dad, and lots of aunts and uncles to help raise the baby wolves. They babysit when the mom and dad go hunting. All the members of the pack work together to find food and to protect each other. I’m so glad you got to see some. We have a lot of bears in Lake Tahoe who have lost their habitat so they come into the neighborhoods to get food from the trash cans. Some go down on the beach because a tourists leave their trash sometimes. This is not good for the bears. Sometimes they are caught and released back into the forest. You are learning so many new things.
I did not know about wolf babysitters but I know trash and people food are bad for wild animals even if it is tasty to them. I like learning about animals. Thank you for telling me this.