Maned Wolves | Endangered Wolf Center

Meet The Maned Wolf - The Largest Canid In South America

Denver Zoo works with our animals to learn certain behaviors that help them voluntarily participate in their own medical care. In this video, our maned wolf, Lima, demonstrates crate training, which helped her keepers facilitate a low-stress move to her new zoo home as part of her role in the maned wolf Species Survival Plan (SSP). Crate training can also help shift animals to the veterinary hospital for medical procedures, or lead to new behaviors such as a voluntary radiograph. This is one of

Tinder for wolves? Maned wolf matchmaking gets a little help from science and Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Their survival depends on it. | Smithsonian