Wolf Hauls up Crab Trap to Eat Bait, Hinting at Possible Tool Use

Wolf hauls up crab trap to eat bait, hinting at possible tool use

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

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 she is towing is not visible from the surface: a baited crab trap, fully submerged, tethered to the buoy by a length of rope. She hauls the whole rig up onto the rocks, then works at the trap’s netting until she reaches the bait cup inside. The sequen…