Wolves have been stealing bait from underwater crab traps in British Columbia, Canada, which some researchers claim amounts to the predators' “tool use."

Some Rocky Mountain wolf experts say it’s notable behavior, but a stretch to call it that.

Bait started to go missing from crab traps along the central coast of British Columbia in 2023. So remote cameras were set up.

One camera captured video of a female wolf swimming into the water to retrieve a crab trap line buoy. Once back on shore, she pulled the line to retrieve the trap, then gobbled up the bait that was in the trap.

In an article recently published in Science , some researchers touted that as proof that wolves’ intelligence is rising to the level of “tool use.”

Wolf expert Rick McIntyre told Cowboy State Daily that’s not

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