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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Wildlife agents rescued two Mexican gray wolf pups found abandoned in a New Mexico forest, but three others from the same litter were found dead, officials said Thursday.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said the mother gave birth to six pups in April, in what officials viewed as an achievement in a decade-long effort to reintroduce the wolf to the southern New Mexico-Arizona border region.
But two of the pups were found dead in June. The mother, the pack's alpha female, then moved one pup to a new den, and the remaining three were left behind because they couldn't be coaxed out of the den.
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