Teach a wolf to fish and you’ll feed it for a lifetime.
When you think of wolves hunting for food, you probably imagine the wild canines stalking a deer, or even working together in a pack to try and take down a bison. That’s very common, and usually the case for wolves that live in inland areas. But as for coastal wolves… they don’t mind to go fishing for their food.
That was on full display in this remarkable video out of British Columbia in Canada. The wolves captured in this footage often trade out the hunt on land for the hunt in the water, and almost prefer fishing as their main source of food to fulfill their diets.
The wolves especially love to do so during salmon spawning season, which generally stretches from August to November. As you’ll see in this clip, the wild animals have even come up with a rather successful fishing method for when they are hunting in packs within a creek.
While one wolf runs up and down through the water, the others position themselves on the banks and wait for the salmon to come to them. As the fish try to out-swim the predator coming at them from the water, they give up their positions, and the other wolves pounce when the time is right.
It’s a foolproof plan, and one that worked out very well for this Canadian wolf pack. And at the end of the day, it’s really stunning to see this on video. Shoutout to the TikTok user who got all of this on camera. It’s remarkable to watch the footage, and I’m sure it was that much more unbelievable to see it all play out in person.
Check it out:
@tahltanollie #fighter #intothewild #getoutside #lovelife #lovemyjob♥️ ♬ Fighter – Royal Deluxe
Looks like a fruitful, prosperous fishing trip to me.
Apparently that one area of the creek is a popular place for wildlife to hang out. The TikTok user, who goes by the name “Tahltanollie,” posted another video from the same point of view back at the end of August that showed a bear, a wolf and a raven all working the same area of the water at the same time.
Someone in the comments pointed out that it was “the whole disassembled totem pole” meeting up in the stream, and I feel like that very well sums it up. Clearly this body of water is a happening place in the Animal Kingdom, and we’re all lucky to get a glimpse of it:
@tahltanollie #cool #wildlifelover #lovemyjob♥️ #happysunday #blessed ♬ The Dukes of Hazzard – The Sonora’s Tucson Band
