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What’s all the ruckus?

Female red wolf 1794 relaxes in her enclosure (that's male male left, rear).
Female red wolf 1794 relaxes in her enclosure (that’s the male at left, rear).

 

One ear focused in one direction, the other the opposite direction.
One ear focused in one direction, the other in the opposite direction.

 

As the red wolves relaxed, two male yellow-bellied sapsuckers, one of them a young bird, began to scuffle over who the trees inside the wolf enclosure actually belong to. The woodpeckers chased each other around the trees, flying back and forth, shuffling around and around the tree trunks. The female wolf carefully watched the fracas.

 

Alert to the happenings around her.
Alert to the happenings around her.

 

The sapsuckers chase each other around the trunk.
The sapsuckers chase each other around the trunk.

 

Watching the woodpeckers chase about.
Watching the woodpeckers.

 

At one point, the sapsuckers took off in aerial combat, fluttering to the ground. The wolf was up and after them in a flash.

 

Beak-to-beak aerial combat.
Beak-to-beak aerial combat.

 

Fortunately for the birds, the wolf missed.

 

"You won't be so lucky nest time."
“You won’t be so lucky next time.”

 

It would do the woodpeckers well to take care while in the presence of the wolves.

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