For maned wolf pups, playtime is serious business! Keepers captured rare footage of Nikko and his six-month-old pup, Lu, enjoying a playful afternoon at the Zoo's conservation campus in Front Royal, Virginia. Natural parental care helps young wolves build the skills they need to thrive in adulthood. Learn more about our maned wolf pups in our latest pupdate! https://s.si.edu/4mlKYme | Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

Denver Zoo works with our animals to learn certain behaviors that help them voluntarily participate in their own medical care. In this video, our maned wolf, Lima, demonstrates crate training, which helped her keepers facilitate a low-stress move to her new zoo home as part of her role in the maned wolf Species Survival Plan (SSP). Crate training can also help shift animals to the veterinary hospital for medical procedures, or lead to new behaviors such as a voluntary radiograph. This is one of

The maned wolf: not a wolf, not a fox… just one of the strangest canids on Earth. 👀🧡 Long legs, big ears, and a VERY distinctive smell. Which species should we feature next? 👇 #manedwolf #smallzoobigspecies #hemsleyconservationcentre | Hemsley Conservation Centre