Four wolves doze among pine and white-barked aspen trees, beneath a slate-grey sky. They are sated after last night's meal, and the remains of a deer lie nearby. These are not just any wolves, though - they are diplomats. This is the "ambassador" wolf pack at the International Wolf Center here in Ely, near Minnesota's border with Canada. The wolves' task is to foster a truce between the species they represent and us humans gazing at them from the other side of a viewing window.
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