Wolf (Canis lupus)

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Wolves eats wild blueberries !!! (Source : Video and Video Description from a post of the Voyageurs Wolf Project, in Minnesota in 2019-2020)

The first-ever footage of wolves eating blueberries in the Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem! We tried for 2 years to get this footage of wolves eating berries and finally got it this past summer! As far as we know, this is the only footage that exists of wild wolves eating blueberries. Though, we know of a few clips of wolves eating other kinds of berries or fruits.

In addition to this footage, we just published some exciting research yesterday on an observation from 2017 where we watched an adult wolf regurgitate blueberries to 5 wolf pups. This is the first documented observation of wolves feeding or provisioning pups with berries or fruits of any kind! More importantly, though, this observation suggests that berries might be a more important food source for wolves in boreal ecosystems than previously thought!

If you want to learn more, watch the video or read/download the publication here: https://tinyurl.com/qqxt3us.

Publication Citation (click on the link above this to read this paper):
Homkes et al. 2020. Berry Important? Wolf Provisions Pups with Berries in Northern Minnesota. Wildlife Society Bulletin

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Many Firsts :

[*]First-Ever footage of this observation in the GVE (Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem)
[*]First-Ever documented of wolves feeding, regurgitating and provisioning berries or any fruits to pups. Reply