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Young wolf brothers join sister at Potter Park Zoo

By • Jan 14, 2015

A young male gray wolf stands near his older sister sitting on a perch behind him at Potter Park Zoo.
Credit Kevin Lavery/WKAR

Take a moment now, and think back to your childhood, and your elementary school music class.  You might remember listening to Sergei Prokofiev’s 1936 classic “Peter and the Wolf.”  The wolf is an enigmatic figure in our imagination, but the Potter Park Zoo in Lansing is helping us learn more about wolves with the arrival of two male gray wolves. The brothers are each eight months old.

Current State’s Kevin Lavery talks with Dennis Laidler, the education curator at the zoo.

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