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The Wolf America Almost Lost with Bailey Cadena
By the 1970s, only seven Mexican gray wolves remained in the wild — and the species had vanished from the United States entirely.
On this episode of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom The Podcast, Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant sits down with Bailey Cadena, AZA's co-vice program lead for the SAFE Mexican Wolf Program at the @cincinnatizoo . Together they trace the wolf's recovery from a single enclosure founded by Wild Kingdom's original host, Marlin Perkins, to a population now standing at 319 in the U.S. and 25+ in Mexico.
Bailey explains the science of cross-fostering: placing zoo-born pups into wild dens…
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