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Members of the Voyageurs Wolf Project study the behavior of wolves in the Voyageurs National Park in northern Minnesota.
Earlier this week, Project Lead Tom Gable made a “fascinating observation” involving a wolf born in 2019, with a post on the project’s Facebook page saying, “This is the first time we have ever seen anything quite like this in our area.”
Gable discovered a wolf from the Wiyapka Lake Pack had scavenged the carcass of a wolf pup, born this year, and then buried the pup’s head for later, he explained in a Facebook video posted Thursday.
While wolves are known to scavenge and cache things for later, what makes this observation “particularly intriguing” is the wolf who buried the pup skull shares the same mother as the dead pup – so the wolf scavenged the remains of his sibling, the project explained on Facebook Friday.
“We have not seen another instance like this before,” the project said.
Gable said he discovered the pup skull buried under a tree after noticing a large disturbed area in the snow with cracked bones and nearby wolf tracks, where the wolf ate the pup carcass.
The post ‘Rare’ discovery: Wolf ate sibling’s carcass, buried skull for later first appeared on International Wolf Center.
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