Elusive (Arctic) wolves caught on camera

Eugene

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Thu Jan-31-08 09:43 AM
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Elusive (Arctic) wolves caught on camera

Source: BBC News

Last Updated: Thursday, 31 January 2008, 10:50 GMT

Elusive wolves caught on camera
By Rebecca Morelle
Science reporter, BBC News

Remarkable new footage of Canada's Arctic wolves
has been caught on camera by a BBC crew.

The team managed to film the wolves taking to the
water to hunt waterfowl - behaviour that has never
been seen before, according to an expert.

Arctic wolves live in the Canadian Arctic and
northern parts of Greenland; observing them is a
difficult task as they rarely interact with humans.

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Usually, he said, wolves eat large hoofed animals,
although they will vary their diet as circumstances
dictate.

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Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7213731.stm

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truebrit71

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Thu Jan-31-08 10:07 AM
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1. Very cool....

..some interesting material at the bbc link...

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Thu Jan-31-08 10:38 AM
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2. I watched all 3 of the videos! Man, those guys sure look like my Samoyeds!

I have a 'thing' about big, white dogs.

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