Sat Nov 21 2009
ALBION, Mich. (AP) -- Spending a summer working with wolves at an Indiana animal park gave an Albion College basketball player thrills quite different from those he gets on the court.
Center Wayne Bond, a senior biology major, said his internship at Wolf Park in Battle Ground, Ind., was a dream job.
He spent the summer leading walking tours of the research and teaching facility. He also had direct contact with the park's 14 adult wolves, three red foxes, two coyotes and its bison herd.
Bond said his favorite memory is of racing the wolves in his car while feeding them meatballs laced with medicine.
"We fed them dead animals and they don't have anything to chase," Bond stated.
"The opportunity to race is a really big thing for them. I would take my car out and you could see the excitement on their faces.
"I beat them the first three or four races, but they beat me the last time. They are so fast."
Bond said he has more in common with wolves than might be obvious.
Like them, he traveled frequently while growing up. Born in Germany, he moved with his family to Arkansas when he was 9. He attended three high schools before graduating from Michigan's Portage Central High School and enrolling at Albion College.
"Bond credits the near-constant shuffling for helping him develop his good-natured and flexible personality" and "helped shape a love for wolves," Albion College spokesman Bobby Lee wrote on the school's website.
Bond started 13 games last season for the Britons.
"I was so happy" to learn of the job, Bond said in a statement. "I had a game that day so I could only celebrate for a few minutes before getting my mind back to defeating Hope (College)."
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