The berry season is here — the time of year when wolves in our area become omnivores! For some wolves and wolf packs, berries will likely be the primary food source for the next 4 or so weeks. Some research we did a few years ago showed that berries can make up to 83% of a wolf pack’s weekly diet during the peak of the berry season. Of course, one has to wonder why wolves are eating berries in the first place? It is almost certainly not because wolves prefer berries over other prey. Instead, ber

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 wo