Rare coastal wolves photographed

[Catherine]

Two wildlife photographers  on Vancouver Island came across an amazing sight. They encountered coastal wolves. They are a unique population of wolves because they have developed different different patterns of behavior. They tend to live on what they can get from the ocean. They eat marine mammals that wash ashore and mussels off the rocks. Their whole food focus is on what they can get from the ocean. 
Their pictures are beautiful. Like all wolves they are vulnerable, especially to human  interference. 


https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/wildl...-1.4755607


They are not a well known wolf, so Parks Canada is asking visitors to the area to collect any wolf droppings they find so they can be studied. The collecting is part of the Wild About Wolves research project.



https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/pn-np/bc/pacific...ild-wolves

Think about how different they must be. Instead of hunting as a pack to bring down a large mammal, they would watch the beaches for dead sea mammals. They would watch the tides so they could forage in intertidal pools. Their whole family structure would be different.  It will be interesting to learn more as researchers study them.