Brookfield Zoo names 2-month-old wolf pup after Native American tribe

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Brookfield Zoo names 2-month-old wolf pup after Native American tribe

BROOKFIELD, Ill. -- Brookfield Zoo's newest wolf pup has finally been named. The two-year-old pup was named Ahote pronounced Ah-ho-teh), a Native American Hopi origin and means "restless one." Ahote is one of seven pups who were born at the zoo on April 27. In May, his siblings were transferred to be fostered by wild Mexican wolf packs in southeast Arizona and southwest New Mexico as a part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Wolf Recover…