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The Trust Welcomes Three New Residents… WolfThe UK Wolf Conservation Trust PrintIssue 43 Summer 2011 The Trust welcomes three new residents… …but says goodbye to Latea • Bulgaria project update • Jim McNeill returns to Ellesmere Island • Canis lupus soupus: the classification of wolves ■ NEWS ■ EVENTS ■ MEDIA AND ARTS ■ REVIEWS Wolf Print Editor Vicky Allison-Hughes Tel: 0118 971 3330 Email: [email protected] Assistant Editor Julia Bohanna Editorial Team Angela Barrow, Lynn Kent Tsa Palmer, Denise Taylor Editor's Published by The UK Wolf Conservation Trust Butlers Farm, Beenham, Reading, RG7 5NT Tel: 0118 971 3330 Fax: 0118 971 0522 Letter Email: [email protected] Patrons Martin ‘Wolfie’ Adams elcome to the summer edition of Wolf Print. We've had a busy David Clement-Davies spring at the Trust with many changes, some of which are Cornelia 'Neil' Hutt physical, such as additional fencing and restricted areas ready Erich Klinghammer W Desmond Morris to quarantine the expected Arctic wolf cubs. The pole barn is finally Marco Musiani finished and now just needs the displays installing. This will happen once Michelle Paver our newest arrivals – Tala, Tundra and Nuka – have moved out; read on The UK Wolf Conservation Trust Directors in the director's letter to find out more about them. Nigel Bulmer Anne Carter I've had the privilege of representing the Trust at two different events Charles Hicks Sue Hull over the last few months, Clive Readings (the Trust’s wolf keeper) and I Tsa Palmer attended the ABWAK (Association of British Wild Animal Keepers) conference in March at Port Lympne Wildlife Park (see page 6 for further Specialist Advisors Alistair Bath details). I also had the opportunity to attend the Mammal Society Claudio Sillero conference at Nottingham University in April where I met up with one Denise Taylor of our current research students, Holly Root-Gutteridge, who is The UK Wolf Conservation Trust is a company conducting PhD research into how we can use wolf howls to track their limited by guarantee. Registered in England & Wales. numbers, movements and lineages. I later had the pleasure of meeting Company No. 3686061. Laetitia Becker who was presenting some research on a comparative The opinions expressed in this magazine are not study of wolves in protected versus unprotected areas in Russia. Laetitia necessarily those of the publishers or The UK Wolf works and carries out her research at the Russian project the UKWCT Conservation Trust. has helped to fund over the last five years. All rights reserved throughout the world. Reproduction in any manner, in whole or in part, in English or other languages, is Also included in this edition is an article from 'the iceman', Jim McNeill. prohibited. The work may not be photocopied or otherwise produced within the terms of any licence granted by the Copyright We were delighted to have Jim attend our first open day of 2011 in May Licensing Agency Ltd or the Publishers Licensing Society Ltd. and speak about his trips to Ellesmere Island, the high Arctic and his encounters with Arctic wolves. We are also lucky enough to have in this Aims of the UK Wolf Conservation Trust edition an article on the fascinating topic of wolf classification from · To increase public awareness and knowledge of wild biologist L. David Mech, who has studied and written about wolves for wolves and their place in the ecosystem. about 50 years. · To provide opportunities for ethological and other research that may improve the lives of wolves both in In all, it's been a busy few months, but having the enjoyment of being captivity and in the wild. part of the team hand-rearing wolf cubs again makes it all worthwhile. · To provide wolf-related education programmes for Five years ago when I started at the Trust I had the opportunity to help young people and adults. hand-rear Mosi, Mai and Torak which was wonderful, but to now have · To raise money to help fund wolf-related conservation the chance again... what can I say – it's amazing! I look forward to the projects around the world. arrival of the three Arctic cubs (see page 7) to enhance our lives further. Download Wolf Print, including back issues, from www.ukwolf.org I really hope you all enjoy this edition of Wolf Print and will continue to follow us and the wolves in the coming years as our new generation of Design and artwork: Business Pluspoint wolves grow and mature. www.businesspluspoint.co.uk Tel: 0118 988 5530 email: [email protected] Vicky Allison-Hughes Printed by: Pensord, NP12 2YA. www.pensord.co.uk Printed on FSC paper from sustainable forest sources. Education Officer / Wolf Handler / Wolf Print Editor This magazine is fully recyclable. By recycling magazines you can help to reduce waste and add to the millions of tonnes of paper already recycled every year by the UK paper industry. You can recycle paper through your Cover photo: Tala, Nuka and Tundra at weeks, five by Clive Readings home recycling collection scheme or at your local recycling centre. Visit www.recyclenow.com and enter your postcode to find your nearest site. 2 UKWCT WOLF PRINT 10 13 contents REGULARS 2 Editor's Letter 14 Life and Behaviour of Wolves Wolves and Climate Change 22 Wolves of the World 25 Merchandise Wolf gifts and souvenirs 26 Making Tracks 12 A review of Wolfer’s Carter Niemeyer NEWS FROM THE TRUST 4 Director's Letter and Trust News 8 Update on the Trust’s wolves 12 Tala, Tundra and Nuka The Trust’s newest residents 13 A tribute to Latea FEATURES 28 10 Ice Warrior Jim McNeill returns to Ellesmere Island 16 The Scientific Classification of Wolves L. David Mech investigates this complicated issue 18 Balkani Wildlife Society Elena Tsingarska on the wolf study and conservation project 20 The Wolves of Transylvania Alan Sparks on wolf conservation in Romania 28 Animal Magic Julia Bohanna interviews sculptor Sally Matthews 30 Hunter Creative writing from Winchester University’s Aimee Topham WHAT'S COMING UP 31 Events at the Trust 25 Open days, holiday activities, howl nights and more ISSUE 43 SUMMER 2011 3 Trust News Director’s Letter Wolves are always full of surprises: subsequently commented on the unusual I never imagined that I would be bottle- amount of howling that night! feeding cubs again this spring, some forty years since I first bottle-fed Quatro, a Mai's first cub was very slow arriving: we male Canadian wolf who came from Port saw its back legs coming out at about Lympne. At ten days old, Quatro lived in a 10.00pm and it was eventually born about cardboard box in my flat. He went to 10.30pm. It was a traumatic half an hour work with me every day for the first six in which we thought that the cub was weeks of his life living under my desk – I unlikely to survive. Mai's behaviour with had a long-suffering boss! Our present this cub was extraordinary: when the cub cubs – Nuka, Tala and Tundra – have a was born Mai licked it and pawed it and spacious barn designed for their then immediately set about digging in the upbringing which is fantastic facility. earth and burying it. Tsa with the three new arrivals We never expected Mai would have cubs We were shocked by Mai’s reaction. We this spring. Although she was very were not able to tell yet if it was dead installed a camera trap which recorded all flirtatious to Motomo while she was in and, as it was Mai’s first birth, we were the events in the den David Attenborough- season in February and made advances to worried she might do this to all the style. It was a wonderful achievement. him, we never saw anything reciprocated! subsequent cubs. We then decided to He obviously waited until cover of leave her on her own for a while, as we It was a memorable experience and for darkness to mate with her, when he was were concerned we might be upsetting that time after the birth of Mai's first cub least vulnerable. Torak, on the other her by our presence. and her subsequent behaviour in burying hand, was very open with his activities it, was undoubtedly the most agonising with Mosi – showing us the difference in An anxious 45 minutes passed before we few hours I have spent watching our behaviour of socialised wolves. went down to see her again. To our wolves. horror on arriving back with her we saw a We first noticed a change in Mai's dead cub in front of her and our worst Since then, Nuka, Tala and Tundra, thanks behaviour in March when she spent large fears appeared to have been confirmed. to the endless enthusiasm of the parts of the day digging furiously in the However, we then heard a squeaking and volunteers who have all taken shifts to clay earth in the mound in her enclosure. realised she had given birth to a live cub cover the night feeds, have come on leaps For that period of time she became an and she had just dug up the first one and bounds and will soon be ready to live orange-coloured wolf as the clay stuck to again, presumably to check it wasn't still outside. My thanks go particularly to Paul her face. Motomo became increasingly alive. We were so relieved that she had a Denton who has had the unenviable task bold, coming closer to the fence by her live cub and so went to bed. At 5.30am of arranging the bottle-feeding rota for side and protective of her.
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