The Heiltsuk Nation has been waging an eternal war against an invasive European green crab menace. They set traps to ensnare these little invaders in an effort to help save eelgrass and protect salmon and clams from the wave of crabs. But they noticed that something was destroying their traps.

Otters? Maybe some seals or something? In May 2024, they got their answer. A remote camera captured a female wolf swimming out from deep water, grabbing the trap’s buoy, and dragging it toward the shore. She lifts the rope, tugs it repeatedly, and in under three minutes, hauls a fully submerged trap into her grasp, which she then rips apart to pluck out the orange bait cup. She licked it clean of sea lion meat and then trotted away.

Researchers say this might be the first documented case of tool us

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