Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg is inviting guests to connect with and meet a new family of five grey wolves that it welcomed from the Greater Vancouver Zoo on Thursday.

The pack includes the parents, seven-year-old Chinook and Gigi, and their three offspring — Comet, who is male, and Stella and Virgo, who are female — curator Shane Pratt told CBC News on Friday. The pups are three years old.

"This is really big. They're very interactive animals," Pratt said.

"We really like having people connect with our animals and inspire people to conserve," as well as "learn about how important they are for ecosystems," he said.

The family's arrival follows the death of Bear , 14, in March, the last grey wolf in the zoo's original pack, the Assiniboine Park Conservancy said in a Friday press re

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