8/13/15, by Ryan Heinsius, KNAU Arizona Public Radio

Arizona Game and Fish Votes to Increase Mexican Gray Wolf ‘Cross-Fostering’

State wildlife officials have voted to increase the practice of “cross-fostering” Mexican gray wolves.  That’s the substitution of captive-raised pups for wild ones in hopes of increasing genetic diversity…Biologists say inbreeding is a major threat to the endangered population in Arizona and New Mexico

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