Swiftcurrent Creek yesterday's news · pack activity

When Ferdie called her name and named her fish the prettiest and the cutest, her nose wrinkled but she laughed. "Thanks, Ferdie," she said, then pushed herself to her feet and bowed playfully to the other wolves gathered around. "Thank-you, thank-you..."

The youngster tended to take her cue from the leader at these gatherings, so when Fox ate, then moved off a ways and made herself comfy, the youth followed suit. She gobbled up her catch, then tried her best to sneak a few fish off the others' piles. Grinning happily, she then bobbed to a spot upstream, circled a few times and lay back with a full stomach and a happy sigh.