‘Diamond’ Dogs Alive And Well As New Wolfpack Discovered Near Lake Tahoe

One of the fuinniest bits in one of my favorite shows, Ted Lasso, is when the guys from the fictional English soccer team F.C. Richmond share advice to each other as the club within a club, the Diamond Dogs. Now, say hey to California’s “Diamond” wolf pack, the latest lupine collection detected in California.

Here’s more from the San Francisco Chronicle:

State wildlife officials say the pack, named the Diamond Pack, consists of at least one adult male and one adult female, which have been traveling together for a minimum of six months and could soon mate and produce offspring, if they haven’t already.

It is the ninth pack currently living in California, alongside numerous lone wolves, officials say, and it’s the third new pack documented this year. Last month, an unnamed pack of four was reported in Lassen National Forest, and in spring, the Antelope Pack, made up of at least two wolves, was confirmed in Sierra Valley, next to the Diamond Pack.

The uptick in wolves in California comes 13 years after the first wolf was seen in the state in nearly a century. The apex predator was killed off by hunters and trappers in the 1920s but has recently begun reestablishing itself, arriving from other states to the north. Today, the animal is protected under California and federal endangered species laws.