Teach A wolf to Fish….

March 18, 2008

Tom over at the Black Bear Blog has an interesting story and a series of photographs of a wolf catching salmon. Not an activity that many of us would imagine a wolf doing but it appears to be a true story. I’ve discovered a few newspaper accounts from 2007 and a video of the wolf fishing.
[quote]A wolf vying for salmon along with the oft-photographed Brooks bears was startling enough that more than a few photographers thought the pictures might be computer-enhanced composites. Stinsa heard such comments, too.

“The photos are not doctored in any way,” he said last week.

They were cropped, he said, and some spots with bad light were highlighted. Other than that, they are 100 percent as they appeared in the viewfinder of his camera, he said.

And he has Park Service employee Niki Quester as a witness.

“She said she’d never seen anything like this,” Stinsa said. [/quote]

The Seattle Times has the story as well as the Anchorage Daily News has the actual video. So I would say based on this it’s true Tom wolves do like to fish and it wasn’t photo shopped.