Researchers in Canada have documented a wild gray wolf hauling a crab trap out of the water to eat the bait inside, according to a recent study. Researchers suggest it may be the first recorded ...

When a wild wolf encounters a potential meal, its instinct is usually to pounce -- but researchers in western Canada have recorded at least one wolf taking a strikingly different approach. The ...

A female wolf figured out how to pull a crab trap from the ocean onto shore to fetch a tasty treat. Scientists debate whether the behavior represents tool use, or if the animal needed to have modified ...

Wild wolves living in Haíɫzaqv (Heiltsuk) Territory on BC’s central coast have learned to pull crab traps out of the ocean—behaviour that represents the first documented case of potential tool use in ...

British Columbia sea wolves have been observed by researchers using their teeth to haul crab traps ashore where they would eat the bait intended for invasive green crabs. The discovery caught on ...

Researchers Kyle Artelle and Paul Paquet tell The National about the moment they captured a wolf pulling up crab traps, similar to how humans would — the first known instance of the animal using a ...