Watch: California’s newest wolf pack howls for the camera

As the wolf turns to face the camera, it lets out an iconic howl. It’s part of the footage captured by trail camera of California’s newest known pack of gray wolves (Canis lupus), known as the Yowlumni Pack. 

The pack appeared last summer in the Sequoia National Forest near the Tule River Tribe of California’s reservation and ancestral land. The Tribe partnered with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to name the pack, which comes from the Yowlumni band of the Tule River Yokuts.

“This was described by my mother, Agnes Vera, who was born on the Tule River Indian Reservation in 1926,” said Vernon Vera, a Tule River Tribal Elder. “She was the last fluent speaker of Yowlumni until her passing in 2010. She taught that the Yowlumni were speakers of the ‘Wolf Tongue.’”

Biologists believe the pack consists of a breeding pair and six pups.

Watch the video below.