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Nira passed away October
1, 2012 after a short illness with liver cancer. Like with Ingo,
we have left this page up in Nira's honor.
Nira is our alpha male by default and perhaps the most social of
the two wolves at Wolf Timbers.
Nira displays a lot
of intensity and has been given another nickname, that of "KING".
Nira seems intent on helping us humans follow the age old wolf pack
societal rules that have for so long governed these predators. Simply
put, Nira forces us to follow wolf laws. If we follow and conduct
ourselves accordingly, Nira is pleasant to be around, and can be
amusing at times.
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As of September 2000,
Nira weighs around 110 pounds and he is beginning to develop more
gray in his coat. He is still ever ready to solicit belly rubs from
the humans that care for him. He has meet most of his sponsors and
generally finds meeting new humans to be interesting.
An interesting event
occurred on 9-10-2000. Three volunteers were in the enclosure with
the wolves and horseflies were bothering the wolves. Marty, our
director, was standing near Nira and all of a sudden, this big horsefly
(jumbo horsefly) landed on his leg. Nira witnessed this and ever
so delicately nipped the fly off of Marty`s leg and proceeded to
kill and eat the horsefly. It was amazing to watch the precision
and great eye-teeth coordination that Nira possessed (much to Marty`s
delight) in surgically extracting this bothersome fly from Marty`s
pant leg.
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Keeley, a tawny female
wolf is 15 1/2 years old. Currently she is our only survivig wolf
of the origianl three. she is a shy wolf and is more apt to run
away than confront danger. In fact, Keeley doted on Ingo when he
was introduced to the pack in July, 1999 -- so much so that her
health became a concern - She
had lost weight because she was egurgitating food for Ingo, when
Ingo was a pup.
After Nira's passing,
Keeley went through and is still going through an adjustment phase.
Her favorite past time currently is leash walks.
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Ingo passed away August
18, 2011. We have left this page up in his honor.
Ingo was born at Wolf
Park on April 22, 1999. His parents are Karin, who had inherited
the alpha position when Altair died in late 1997, and Seneca, who
inherited the alpha position two weeks later when Orca was removed
from the pack after paralyzing himself.
Ingo was introduced
to Keeley and Nira On August 8, 1999.
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you have any problems or comments about this site, please write
to wolftimbers@yahoo.com
Web page ©
2012 Wolf Timbers
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