By Tim Mowry Fairbanks Daily News Miner FAIRBANKS â Just in time for the start of the Alaska tourist season, a wolf with a taste for Gatorade and mountain bikes is cruising the road in Denali National Park and Preserve.
Two incidents involving what park officials believe to be same wolf on Denali Park Road last weekend have biologists at Denali National Park and Preserve concerned the wolf is too bold for its own good.
In both instances, which occurred within a two-mile stretch between Mile 53 and Mile 55, the wolf approached a cyclist or group of cyclists who ended up taking refuge in the van of a park interpreter who happened to be nearby. The wolf approached the abandoned bikes to investigate. The animal chewed on the handlebars of one bike and punctured a Gatorade bottle on another bike.
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