Wolves are magnificent carnivores who are also highly controversial in some circles. While much is known about many aspects of their behavior, in renowned wolf expert Dr. L. David Mech's new highly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A close-up of a gray wolf using its paw to steady a wire crab trap on a rocky beach while sniffing for bait inside.© A-Z Animals ...

This still image of a wolf at night comes from a camera trap, which was part of an experiment investigating wolf behavior in British Columbia. Kyle Artelle In 2023, crab traps along the coast of ...

Mastery of tool-assisted hunting requires a cognitive threshold previously thought impossible for canines. The 14-month observation period revealed structural limitations in standard predatory ...

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 ...

On a remote Alaskan island, gray wolves are rewriting the rulebook by hunting sea otters — a behavior few scientists ever expected to see. Researchers are now uncovering how these coastal wolves ...

“We have captured many hunting sequences on camera but have not observed one where the wolf was leaping like this." ...

Seeing a gray wolf haul a crab trap out of the ocean looks like a scene from a science documentary that forgot its own rules. In a short video from Canada’s Pacific coast, a female coastal wolf works ...