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GRAY — The Maine Wildlife Park’s newest resident is already an internet celebrity. The 3-week-old female moose calf, who melted hearts across the country in a viral video of her with the dog of the family that found her in northern Maine, is now living at the 40-acre wildlife park off Route 26 in Gray. Park Superintendent Curtis Johnson said it’s unclear if the roughly 40-pound calf – named Miss Maggie by the family in the Aroostook County town of Wallagrass that found her – can be rehabilitated and reintroduced into the wild or will remain at the park permanently. “We don’t know yet what’s going to become of this calf in terms of will she be released, (or) because of all the human care will she have to stay in captivity at a place like ours,” Johnson said. The park is run by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife. Johnson noted that the park does not usually rehabilitate animals, and generally just takes in those that cannot be released back into the wild.