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Updated June 18th, 2021 at 12:38 IST

Endangered wolves born in Mexico Zoo

Mexico City dwellers can now visit a litter of five Mexican wolves born at the Chapultepec Zoo on April 24.

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Mexico City dwellers can now visit a litter of five Mexican wolves born at the Chapultepec Zoo on April 24.

The five young wolf cubs are the second litter for Seje and Rhi, a 9-year-old female and a 7-year-old male, who also had six cubs in May 2019.

Wolf cubs are born blind and deaf, so they spend most of their first few months of life inside their den, with brief trips outside that extend as they develop.

The Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) is a subspecies of gray wolf chased and hunted by men since the 1950s, nearly causing its extinction in the 1970s.

In 2020, the efforts of the Species Conservation Action Program succeeded in upgrading the Mexican wolf from "probably extinct in the wild" to "endangered", according to the SEMARNAT (Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources) classification.

Mexico City's Secretariat of the Environment has invited people to choose the name for the five cubs.

Voting remains open until August 15.

 

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Published June 18th, 2021 at 12:38 IST

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