This past year, we captured several instances of wolves chasing deer. Such footage is quite rare (at least for us!) but as we get more cameras our ability to capture and share footage like this is increasing, which is exciting! We do not know what happened in any of these chases (i.e., did the wolf catch the deer or not?). We suspect that wolves were not successful in most of these instances because 1.) wolves are unsuccessful much more often than they are successful (lots of research shows this

Some pretty fascinating and rare footage of wolves hunting deer this past winter from 7 hunting sequences. Of course, wolves hunting deer is a regular occurrence in many areas but observing multiple hunting sequences is practically impossible given the dense forests and lack of visibility. Trail cameras, however, have been fantastic ways to get little snippets of insight on these hunts. The drawback is: you only get snippets, and often have no idea what the outcome was. We captured 7 different h