Mexico Sees 1st Artificial Insemination Wolf Pups The Associated Press
go to original September 6, 2014

Mexican grey wolf cubs are examined after being born through artificial insemination in Mexico City. (EuroPics)

MEXICO CITY - Mexican officials this week presented the first litter of Mexican gray wolf pups conceived in the country by artificial insemination, part of an effort to save one of the hemisphere's most endangered animals.

Authorities are trying to reintroduce the wolf in its natural range, after it was hunted to extinction in the wild in Mexico three decades ago.

Conservation projects in the United States, where some wolves survived in captivity, provided the genetic material for the effort, but the mother of the litter presented Wednesday could not conceive by natural means due to physical problems.

The director of Mexico City's Chapultepec Zoo, Juan Antonio Rivera, said the two pups were born May 26.

Juan Antonio Rivera said it was 'the first litter of an endangered species obtained in our country by artificial insemination."

The mother is one of two remaining wolves from a particularly valuable blood line for the wolves.

In July, Mexico announced the birth of the first known litter of wild-born Mexican pups from a pair of wolves re-introduced in the wild, a project that began in 2011.

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