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June 15, 2002

Mexican Gray Wolf, Wichita, Kansas, 1996

Photograph by Joel Sartore

"Mexican wolves, the most critically endangered subspecies in the lower 48, may have slipped from existence in the wild. However, a population of more than 175 have been bred in captivity [such as this pup in a Wichita zoo] from seven of the last known to exist. Federal biologists intend to start releasing some this year [1998] into national forestland spanning the Arizona-New Mexico border."

(Photographed on assignment for, but not published, in “Return of the Gray Wolf,” May 1998, National Geographic magazine)