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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Aug 17, 2026

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

Wolves have long been portrayed as apex hunters of land and sea, but this is the first evidence of one deliberately harvesting human fishing gear—suggesting these predators are far more adaptable than we realized.

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… [+4849 chars]

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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