The endangered red wolf, the lone wolf species native only to the United States, is slowly coming back thanks to a breeding and reintroduction program that also takes special care of the wolves' teeth.
The Tacoma-based Point Defiance Zoo is conducting dental exams and teeth-cleaning in its managed care program. Broken teeth "would prevent them from eating meat very well," said Karen Wolf, the zoo's head veterinarian.
During one recent checkup at a facility in a wildlife preserve 60 miles south of Seattle, the sedated patient was a 9-year-old wolf known as 2077, the grandfather of six pups born earlier this year and the father of a wolf released into the wild.The cinnamon-colored wolf, named 2077 by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service as the 2,077th wolf entered into the program, received a thorough cleaning and x-rays, and a diseased molar was removed.
The animals in managed care tend to live longer than free-ranging red wolves, in part because they have annual exams and dental hygiene.
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