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Coastal wolves like this one were recorded reeling in a crab trap and feasting on the herring and sea lion flesh meant as bait. /Kyle A. Artelle
By Elie Dolgin
15 hours ago
To Kyle Artelle, an ecologist who coleads the Haíɫzaqv Wolf and Biodiversity Project, the footage was “completely revelatory.”
“The amount of confidence she shows, and the efficiency of that behavior — it certainly suggests this is not her first rodeo,” says Artelle, of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse.
Tool use, broadly defined as the deliberate manipulation of an object to achieve a goal, has been seen in domestic dogs, captive dingoes and many wild animals. Not so in free-living wolves, though they move mostly at twilight, making close observation rare.
Haíɫzaqv Guardians had noticed many crab traps dragged onto the beach, their netting mangled and bait missing. The wardens initially thought marine mammals might be to blame. Or maybe bears. Remote cameras not only revealed the real culprit, but also later captured similar, less conclusive glimpses of the same behavior in additional wolves.
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