Jul 13, 2021
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The travails of a Mexican gray wolf named Mr. Goodbar show the grave threat posed by the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
This is Mr. Goodbar, recovering in a rescue center after he was shot. His left rear leg was amputated. He was released into the wild on February 9, 2022. Despite the amputation, Mr. Goodbar has good odds of surviving in the wild — several other three-legged wolves have been able to roam, hunt and successfully mate post-injury. This story about somebody shooting him, his veterinary care and his release into the wild happened after National Geographic prepared its story.
Excerpt from this story from National Geographic:
In late 2021 an endangered Mexican gray wolf set out on an epic journey.
Known as Mr. Goodbar, the male had months earlier left his pack in eastern Arizona in search of his own territory and a mate. He headed south and east, through the Chihuahuan Desert, a vast, biodiverse expanse of grasslands and shrublands interspersed with mountain ranges and valleys.
The lanky canine, sporting a mix of silvery brown fur and not yet two years old, passed by the outskirts of Las Cruces, New Mexico, on November 22. The land is wide open and speckled with creosote, yucca, and cacti. Before him were distant peaks, including now extinct volcanoes and craters of the East Potrillo Mountains, the southern tip of which nearly reaches the Mexican border. Guided by instinct through the ancient territory of his kind, he headed that direction.
But he soon found himself at a perplexing impasse: The U.S.-Mexico border. Just one year prior, the land was open, except for a short vehicle barrier, a type of low porous fence meant to stop cars and trucks from illegal crossings. But now he found it blocked by a 30-foot-high wall, composed of massive steel beams separated by four-inch gaps, admitting only the tiniest of animals.
Most of New Mexico’s border is now flanked by this fence, built from 2018 to 2020 under Donald Trump’s administration, a fact lost on Mr. Goodbar, who simply kept moving west. In all, he spent nearly five days migrating along the wall, sometimes briefly switching directions, presumably trying to head south around the obstacle. Eventually, about 23 miles west of where he encountered it, he gave up and headed back north.
More of the story about Mr. Goodbar’s injury and release from the El Paso Times:
Mr. Goodbar might be the most famous wolf in America. He paced along the U.S./Mexico border wall in Southern New Mexico for five days in late November before turning around. The section of border wall was constructed under former President Donald Trump, despite the opposition of environmental and human rights groups.
During December, Mr. Goodbar traveled north to New Mexico's Gila Wilderness.
Mr. Goodbar was captured by field biologists Jan. 26 and arrived at the ABQ BioPark Zoo the next day. Veterinarians estimated the wolf was shot "one to two weeks" before his capture. FWS has not disclosed where in New Mexico Mr. Goodbar was shot or the circumstance of his capture.
"The muscle along his right leg was already starting to atrophy," said Dr. Bradford. "So unfortunately, he was probably out there between one and two weeks with that injury."
She said her team took X-rays of the leg and confirmed it was broken.
"Due to the severity of the injury, the best course of action would be to amputate that leg," she said.
For Throwback Thursday, a couple years back, I wrote a piece on my childhood memories of the one thing above all others that most kids care about on Halloween: The CANDY! So sit back, and prepare yourself for virtual diabeetus!
https://retrorevelations.blogspot.com/2019/10/attack-of-sweet-tooth-memories-of.html
How candies got their names
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Mr. Goodbar
Mr. Goodbar, a Mexican gray wolf, traveled solo for months after surviving a gunshot wound. He now might have found a partner.
Excerpt from this story from the Silver City Sun News:
It's been a long and lonely road for Mr. Goodbar. But the Mexican gray wolf's GPS collar shows he has recently been traveling alongside a single female wolf.
After nearly being eradicated in the wild, Mexican gray wolves were reintroduced to the Southwest in the 1990s. But the population of the endangered species has been slow to recover: People are known to illegally kill wolves and only about half of pups survive to adulthood. The 2021 census put the wild Mexican gray wolf population in New Mexico and Arizona at 196, but wolves like Mr. Goodbar provide hope that the iconic species of the Southwest will make a full comeback.
Mr. Goodbar paced the border wall in November 2021 and later survived a gunshot wound. Despite these obstacles, the wolf continued to roam in search of his own territory and, hopefully, a mate. Recent tracking information indicates he is traveling with a female wolf named Stella. It's too soon to know if they will form a pack. But their companionship is an encouraging sign for the endangered wolf.
In November 2021, Mr. Goodbar's GPS collar located him along the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Southern New Mexico, where he paced for 23 miles. He eventually turned back north. Sometime in January, he was shot in New Mexico. After his right hind leg was amputated at the ABQ BioPark Zoo in Albuquerque, he was again released into the wild.
Meanwhile, a female wolf was starting her own wanderings. According to quarterly reports from the Mexican Wolf Interagency Field Team, F2694 was born into the Saffel pack in 2021. That November the field team captured her and collared her with a GPS tracker.
Lobos of the Southwest, a coalition of organizations that supports Mexican wolf recovery, held a naming contest for pups born in the wild in 2021. A first-grader nominated the name Stella, which was chosen for F2694.
To the tune of the 4th and final track of the "Concerto for a Rainy Day" suite on side 3 of the original double album, Mr. Blue Sky, from Electric Light Orchestra's 1977 album, Out of the Blue, written and produced by Jeff Lynne:
Mr. Goodbar