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Eugene

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Sat Feb 8, 2020, 11:38 PM Feb 2020

OR-54: Endangered gray wolf that wandered 8,712 miles looking for a mate or another pack found dead

Source: CBS/AP

Endangered gray wolf that wandered 8,712 miles looking for a mate or another pack found dead in California

FEBRUARY 8, 2020 / 7:53 AM / CBS/AP

An endangered gray wolf that wandered more than 8,000 miles through Northern California has died, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced. OR-54, a 3- to 4-year-old female with a radio tracking collar, was found dead on Wednesday in Shasta County, the agency said in a statement.

It wasn't clear yet whether the animal died from an accident or natural causes or was killed. State wildlife officials previously said the female wolf was "exploring new ground in search of a mate or another pack."

In December, officials said OR-54 had traveled a "minimum distance of 8,712 miles at an average of 13 miles/day" since January 23, 2018. However, the wolf's radio collar apparently stopped working in December 2019.

Another collared wolf, OR-59, was found shot to death in Northern California in 2018. That killing is unsolved.

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Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/or-54-endangered-gray-wolf-that-wandered-8712-miles-found-dead-in-california/


In this undated photo released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a dispersing wolf from the Oregon Pack OR-54, a descendent of the famous OR-7, the first wild wolf in California in nearly a century. (AP)

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OR-54: Endangered gray wolf that wandered 8,712 miles looking for a mate or another pack found dead (Original Post) Eugene Feb 2020 OP
... 2naSalit Feb 2020 #1
Love what you do for animals. Was a time I was emotionally resilient enough to bear witness, as emmaverybo Feb 2020 #2
I hope humanity didn't do this. Karadeniz Feb 2020 #3
I hope some writes a children's book pscot Feb 2020 #4

emmaverybo

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2. Love what you do for animals. Was a time I was emotionally resilient enough to bear witness, as
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 11:49 PM
Feb 2020

the least I can do, but no more.

Wish you would mark these as triggering.

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