Like the world's looking back at you. The beige wolf is one of six trapped and ready to be transported to the United States. Chances are it will be prowling central Idaho's wilderness by week's end. Three other wolves were curled upon beds of hay under a bright sky in bitter cold, terrified and docile. But the male's eyes set its behavior apart from the others.
Alpha males are the dominant male of a wolf pack, the only male that breeds.
Federal biologists hope this wolf and dozens of others they will bring to the United States in the next three to five years will breed and start new packs. The wolves are proof decades of talk about the predator's reintroduction into Yellowstone and central Idaho have finally turned to action. The plan is to put 15 wolves into Yellowstone National Park and 15 into Idaho annually. Fontaine said the animals will likely be flown to the United States five or six at a time. The first trips could begin as early as Monday.