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IronLionZion

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7. Clever wolves

Reply to Spazito (Original post)

Tue Nov 18, 2025, 11:18 AM

10 hrs ago

The wolves in coastal British Columbia have long adapted to sea life to survive. There's a good documentary I watched years ago about Sea Wolves. So these wolves have figured out there's food in those traps, there's a line connected to it, pulling on it brings it closer, then yum.

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These B.C. wolves figured out how to pull up crab traps to get food [View all] Spazito 11 hrs ago OP

That was cool. Clouds Passing 11 hrs ago #1

We continually underestimate the intelligence of animals. Borogove 11 hrs ago #2

Amazing! jmbar2 10 hrs ago #3

My tribe, along with many others, don't call wolves our brothers for nothing, lol. catbyte 10 hrs ago #4

Every creature is capable of learning, evolving. Linda ladeewolf 10 hrs ago #5

Canine sense of smell is unreal . mjvpi 10 hrs ago #6

Clever wolves IronLionZion 10 hrs ago #7

Is this the documentary? markodochartaigh 9 hrs ago #9

I think this one on Netflix IronLionZion 7 hrs ago #14

We had a coyote in our neighborhood that was pulling our downspout drain tubes off the house ToxMarz 9 hrs ago #8

I beg to differ with the line "...in the first evidence of possible tool use by the animals." JoetheShow 9 hrs ago #10

I read of crows doing the same with ice-fishing lines. perfessor 9 hrs ago #11

They may have watched the humans place the traps. twodogsbarking 8 hrs ago #12

Thank you! Spazito 8 hrs ago #13

Far out! 2naSalit 4 hrs ago #15

Nice going Wolf Beringia 3 hrs ago #16

Was hoping for a bunch of crabs central scrutinizer 48 min ago #17