Juneau's Solitary Winter Wolf

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Romeo, a black wolf without a pack is shown patrolling the Mendenhall ...

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Romeo, a black wolf without a pack is shown patrolling the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska on March 16, 2008. Romeo baffles area biologists and naturalists with his refusal to find a pack or a mate, choosing instead to return each winter, clearly at ease with humans walking within a few hundred yards. Known as an Alexander Archipelago species of gray or timber wolf, Romeo is as much a part of winter in Juneau as cross-country skiing and snowshoeing.

(AP Photo/Steve Quinn)