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ALBUQUERQUE - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says a Mexican gray wolf found dead in southwestern New Mexico in October probably died of an intestinal rupture.
A preliminary report says the female wolf from the Morgart pack ingested a plastic ear tag commonly used on domestic cattle and that a rupture in the small intestines likely killed the animal.
An analysis found no sign of cattle hair in the wolf's digestive tract, and officials had no reports of wolf-related cattle depredations in the area.
Fish and Wildlife law enforcement says the wolf's death appears to be accidental.
The agency wasn't able to determine how the animal swallowed an ear tag.
The federal government began releasing wolves in 1998 along the Arizona-New Mexico border in an effort to establish a wild population.
ALBUQUERQUE - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says a Mexican gray wolf found dead in southwestern New Mexico in October probably died of an intestinal rupture.
A preliminary report says the female wolf from the Morgart pack ingested a plastic ear tag commonly used on domestic cattle and that a rupture in the small intestines likely killed the animal.
An analysis found no sign of cattle hair in the wolf's digestive tract, and officials had no reports of wolf-related cattle depredations in the area.
Fish and Wildlife law enforcement says the wolf's death appears to be accidental.
The agency wasn't able to determine how the animal swallowed an ear tag.
The federal government began releasing wolves in 1998 along the Arizona-New Mexico border in an effort to establish a wild population.
