Once the winter storms clear, Utah’s Hogle Zoo will send Angel, its lone gray wolf, to a sanctuary in the northwest, where she’ll live out the rest of her days among a pack, and four rescued red foxes will take her place in the Salt Lake City exhibit.
The zoo won’t be housing any more gray wolves after Angel leaves, the facility announced Wednesday.
It’s a “difficult transition” for the zoo, said spokeswoman Erica Hansen, but it’s also a product of conservation efforts decades in the making.
The Hogle Zoo has housed packs of gray wolves since at least 1958, Hansen said, and what records exist show the pack was once made up of seven canines.