The Voyagers project is just wild about beaver snacking habits of wolves. We shouldn’t be surprised. I guess its how I feel about reading Elon Musk and Lara Loomer sniping at eachother on immigration: Something I very much dislike is attacking another thing I very much dislike so that’s worth watching.
Wolf launches attack on beaver in extraordinary nighttime footage
A group that studies wolves in Minnesota stated Friday that capturing trail-cam footage showing a wolf ambushing a beaver was so extraordinary that it was “like winning the lottery.”
The accompanying footage, captured at night by a camera operated by the Voyageurs Wolf Project, was edited for brevity. But it shows the wolf detecting, crouching, and launching its attack.
The wolf disappears into the darkness, but audio reveals splashing and other sounds as the attack moved onto land. The next scene shows the wolf returning toward the camera with “a full belly” and beaver tail in its mouth.
Yes wolves eat beavers. And beavers rarely eat wolves. Its a whole thing.
I am reminded of a nonsense poem from my childhood by Jack Prelutsky about how an antelope might eat a cantalope but the opposite rarely occurs.
