Mexican wolf captured, pregnant mate left behind to birth

Federal officials have captured a recently released male Mexican gray wolf for the second time in the last four months after the lobo wandered away from his mate and a designated recovery area. The wolf, designated M1133, had been in the wild only two weeks when he was captured May 11, and returned to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Wolf Management Facility at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge.  Federal officials put the male wolf and his mate, a pregnant female designated F1108, into a temporary enclosure in McKenna Park, a remote area in the Gila Wilderness on April 27. The enclosure is designed to allow wolves to chew through and “self-release,” which the pair did May 3. But while the pregnant female appears to be denning near McKenna Park in order to raise pups, her mate headed east, covering more than 75 miles before he was captured east of the San Mateo Mountains, located in the Cibola National Forest southwest of Socorro. Because the wolf was outside the boundaries of the 4-million-acre Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area in southeast Arizona and southwest New Mexico, and is considered part of a “non-essential, experimental population,” the Fish and Wildlife Service said program rules required the capture of the wandering lobo...more

The above is from the Albq. Journal, and just like the AP article there is no mention of M1133 killing a calf.