KINGSPORT, Tenn. – Officials in Kingsport suspect one of two wolves missing from a city nature park may be dead.
Six gray wolves escaped from Bays Mountain Park when a Dec. 2 windstorm toppled a tree, breaking down two fences of their pen.
Four were coaxed back into captivity within a couple of days.
The Kingsport Times-News quoted Chris McCartt, assistant to the city manager, who said a missing female wolf has been spotted several times, but there have been no confirmed sightings of a missing male wolf.
Park officials have taken several shots at the female with tranquilizer darts, but have either not hit her or the tranquilizer has had little effect.