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A trail camera in British Columbia recorded a wild wolf swimming out to a buoy and hauling a fully submerged crab trap up the beach by its rope, then working the bait cup open — three minutes of footage no wild canid had ever been filmed doing - Space Daily

A trail camera in British Columbia recorded a wild wolf swimming out to a buoy and hauling a fully submerged crab trap up the beach by its rope, then working the bait cup open — three minutes of footage no wild canid had ever been filmed doing - Space Daily
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Researchers in British Columbia captured rare footage of a wild wolf using a buoy to retrieve a crab trap from the ocean. This behavior demonstrates a level of problem-solving and tool-use previously undocumented in wild canids.

The footage runs just under three minutes. A wolf swims out from a rocky shoreline on the central coast of British Columbia, grabs a floating buoy in her jaws, and turns back toward the beach. What s…

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