This May 14, 2021, photo provided by the North Carolina Zoo, in Asheboro, N.C., shows several of the American red wolf pups born at the zoo in late April. The American red wolves are critically endangered and number less than two dozen in the wild. (Moriah Angott/North Carolina Zoo via AP)Three litters of American red wolves, which are critically endangered and number less than two dozen in the wild, have been born at the North Carolina Zoo. The zoo said the litters, which total 12 pups, were born over three days at the end of April. The newest pups bring the total number of red wolves currently in the zoo’s breeding program to 36, making it the second-largest pack in the US after Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma, Washington, according to the North Carolina Zoo.

Source: Irish Independent May 18, 2021 02:15 UTC