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Saw this on our local news last night, and “probably” got waaay too excited over it!
I don’t think I shut up rambling on about species specific mass consciousness, Rupert Sheldrake, and morphogenetic fields for an hour.
I’m so grateful for my husband’s companionship and devotion.
Oh, and the 100th Monkey effect, which I have memorized all the specifics, if anyone else wants to know,
He “gets” me…and is almost as geeky as I am, so there’s that.
So, that’s probably too much information, but dang, this is awesome!
here’s snips of the article and link,
“B.C.’s Heiltsuk First Nation could not figure out how the traps they had set near Bella Bella to catch the invasive green crabs were being damaged.[…]
So they decided to set up cameras in 2024 to try and solve the mystery.”
[…]
“You normally picture a human being with two hands pulling a crab trap, but we couldn’t figure out exactly what had the ability to be able to do that until we put a camera up and saw, well, there’s other intelligent beings out there that are able to do this, which is very remarkable.”
The cameras captured a sea wolf emerging from the water with a buoy hanging from its mouth.“
The wolf then picked up a line attached to the buoy, pulled a crab trap out of the water and ate the bait inside.
Kyle Artelle, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Biology at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in New York, said they first noticed the crab traps in deep water were also being targeted.
“Bears and wolves do swim, but as far as we know, they don’t dive,” he said.
Artelle said when they saw the camera footage of the wolves, they couldn’t believe it.
“Not that we couldn’t believe that a wolf was that intelligent, but we never imagined we were going to be seeing a wolf doing what we see here.”
“What it is is very sophisticated behaviour,” he said. “What we see is a wolf who is bringing a float to shore, she can’t see the traps there, but she brings the float to shore, she knows that float is attached to a rope, she pulls on the rope, it’s attached to a trap, if she pulls that in sequence she can bring the trap to within her reach, then she can bring the trap to shore and then based on that she can access the bait within.”
“It’s the kind of behaviour that is really familiar to us,” he added. “She is solving the problem the same way that we would.”
Artelle said they don’t know how the wolves learned to pull in the crab traps to get to the bait, but they do believe it is one wolf pack and they may be learning from each other.”
globalnews.ca
I don’t think I shut up rambling on about species specific mass consciousness, Rupert Sheldrake, and morphogenetic fields for an hour.
I’m so grateful for my husband’s companionship and devotion.
Oh, and the 100th Monkey effect, which I have memorized all the specifics, if anyone else wants to know,
He “gets” me…and is almost as geeky as I am, so there’s that.
So, that’s probably too much information, but dang, this is awesome!
here’s snips of the article and link,
“B.C.’s Heiltsuk First Nation could not figure out how the traps they had set near Bella Bella to catch the invasive green crabs were being damaged.[…]
So they decided to set up cameras in 2024 to try and solve the mystery.”
[…]
“You normally picture a human being with two hands pulling a crab trap, but we couldn’t figure out exactly what had the ability to be able to do that until we put a camera up and saw, well, there’s other intelligent beings out there that are able to do this, which is very remarkable.”
The cameras captured a sea wolf emerging from the water with a buoy hanging from its mouth.“
The wolf then picked up a line attached to the buoy, pulled a crab trap out of the water and ate the bait inside.
Kyle Artelle, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Biology at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in New York, said they first noticed the crab traps in deep water were also being targeted.
“Bears and wolves do swim, but as far as we know, they don’t dive,” he said.
Artelle said when they saw the camera footage of the wolves, they couldn’t believe it.
“Not that we couldn’t believe that a wolf was that intelligent, but we never imagined we were going to be seeing a wolf doing what we see here.”
“What it is is very sophisticated behaviour,” he said. “What we see is a wolf who is bringing a float to shore, she can’t see the traps there, but she brings the float to shore, she knows that float is attached to a rope, she pulls on the rope, it’s attached to a trap, if she pulls that in sequence she can bring the trap to within her reach, then she can bring the trap to shore and then based on that she can access the bait within.”
“It’s the kind of behaviour that is really familiar to us,” he added. “She is solving the problem the same way that we would.”
Artelle said they don’t know how the wolves learned to pull in the crab traps to get to the bait, but they do believe it is one wolf pack and they may be learning from each other.”
Cameras capture B.C. sea wolf raiding crab traps in first possible ‘tool use’ | Globalnews.ca
'Our crews came in and said that, you know, something had been pulling our crab traps and taking the bait,' William Housty told Global News.
globalnews.ca
