Pup-ular new arrivals at Highland Wildlife Park
RZSS Highland Wildlife Park celebrates new wolf pup arrival
Last updated 21st Jun 2017
Keepers at RZSS Highland Wildlife Park are celebrating the arrival of new wolf pups in the pack at Wolf Wood.
The adorable pups were born on 21 May to mother Ruby and father Jax. Now five weeks old the cubs are slowly starting to venture from their den and become more visible.
Douglas Richardson, Head of Living Collections at RZSS Highland Wildlife Park, said: “We are really pleased to have had wolf pups again this year, building on the success we have had with our present wolf pair. This is Ruby’s second litter and we are happy to report that she is doing a great job, with the pups staying very close to the den under her watchful eye.”
“The rest of the pack – including the six pups from last year – have been on hand to help with the rearing of the new litter. This helps them to develop vital parenting skills for when they move on to start their own packs in other collections.
“The pups are quite tricky to spot at the moment, but they are starting to become bolder so it won't be much longer before they will be bounding around with the other pack members.”
The pack at RZSS Highland Wildlife Park are European wolves, a subspecies of the grey wolf, which used to be the world’s most widely distributed mammal. However, whilst it was found throughout most of Europe, like all other wolf subspecies it now has a much more restricted distribution. The European wolf used to occur in the UK, but the last British wolves were killed not far from the wildlife park in the 1740s