Jennifer Coulter

I think I posted these cool pics of costal wolves eating/fishing salmon once in the past.

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Due to the fact that coastal salmon are known to carry parasites that are dangerous to dogs, I wondered how wolves got away with eating them.

I just watched some show called "Rainwolves" about wolves living in costal British Columbia, Canada. Apparently these wolves only eat the heads of the fish. They showed close to one hundred salmon with only the heads eaten by wolves. Other animals and birds clean up the rest. Bears are able to eat the whole fish for example.

Somehow they know what part of the fish they can eat and what part is dangerous to them. How they make that connection and how long that took...I am not sure. Facinating.

I appolagize it this was common knowledge. Just thought it was neat.

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