Several animals captured from the Copper Creek wolf pack in Colorado will be relocated following repeated attacks on livestock.
An adult female and four pups were taken to a “secure location for evaluation and monitoring,” Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) said in a press release. The pack’s adult male was captured but died in captivity due to injuries unrelated to its capture, officials said on Monday. That wolf would have been kept in captivity if it survived.
“This spring, after a pair of wolves established a den in Middle Park, the male adult wolf was involved in multiple depredations,” CPW Director Jeff Davis said in a statement. “Removing the male at that time, while he was the sole source of food and the female was denning, would likely have been fatal to the pups and counter to the restoration mandate.”
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State officials said the four pups were not involved in the killings of cattle and …