Many animals have been observed using tools. For example, chimps tear leaves off of branches and stick them into holes to pull out termites, and wild dingoes have been observed moving objects to stand ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

B.C.'s Heiltsuk First Nation could not figure out how the traps they had set near Bella Bella to catch the invasive green crabs were being damaged. So they decided to set up cameras in 2024 to try and ...

On a sunny day in late September, songs from Earth, Wind and Fire drifted from the sound system of Gail Kelso’s pontoon boat as she and her three close friends volunteered with the University of ...

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 ...

The coast of British Columbia is experiencing a crab problem. But trying to control the crab problem appears to have surfaced an unexpected wolf problem—one that reveals the surprising capacity of ...