{"id":473314,"date":"2026-02-17T06:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/473314\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T06:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:24:07","slug":"trail-cam-shows-bear-ignores-fish-left-by-wolf-in-forest-pets-animals-and-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/473314\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail cam shows bear ignores fish left by wolf in forest | Pets, Animals and Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trail-cam footage from Minnesota shows a wolf dropping two fish in the forest before rushing out of frame, presumably to continue fishing.<\/p>\n<p>The footage, featured Monday by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DU0kqDwDzxm\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Voyageurs Wolf Project<\/a>, was captured last spring near a creek that a wolf pack is known to utilize as a prey source.<\/p>\n<p>The footage also shows a black bear entering the frame to sniff a potential meal, but ultimately leaving the fish for another wolf to pick up more than two days later.<\/p>\n<p>Wolves catching fish in boreal forests is rarely documented behavior, made possible by remote, motion-sensor trail cameras. The footage is posted below or available via this link.<\/p>\n<p>An observation from Voyageurs Wolf Project regarding the bear:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurprisingly, the black bear seemed very perplexed at finding this fish, and just left it alone without even taking a little nibble. We would have expected a bear to readily take a free meal like this but apparently not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on For The Win: Wolf drops fish in forest to resume fishing, then bear happens along<\/p>\n<p>Reporting by Pete Thomas, For The Win \/ For The Win<\/p>\n<p>USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n<p>                More Pets, Animals and Nature<\/p>\n<p>    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trail-cam footage from Minnesota shows a wolf dropping two fish in the forest before rushing out of frame,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201,28262],"class_list":["post-473314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife","tag-wolf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}