And about 400 bacula of Dire wolves have been preserved at La Brea – which has allowed us to study their size and shape for clues into their mating behavior.
拉布雷亚 (La Brea) 保存了大约 400 只恐狼的杆状——这使我们能够研究它们的大小和形状,以寻找它们交配行为的线索。
And one of them … was that same specimen that belonged to the hero in this story, LACMHC 8291. This bone is a baculum, and it not only fractured, it was broken in half.