The Sea Wolf
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (192386)
Boise, Idaho
August 13, 2026 7:05pm CST
I love wolves. I helped with the repopulation of the gray wolf here in Idaho back in the 80s. So, when I saw a story about the pacific northwestern 'sea wolf' I jumped to research it. Here is what I found:
They are also called a coastal wolf or Vancouver Island Wolf. They get 90% of their food from the sea and it is made up of salmon, herring eggs, clams, mussels, and dead whale meat. Also hunt marine mammals such as sea otters and seals. These wolves are recorded as swimming over 7.5 miles between isolated islands. They weigh 65-90 pounds and have strong jaws for crushing shells and bones.
How interesting to learn this about the wolves I have been interested in all my life.
The picture is from freepik.com
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@celticeagle (192386)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Aug
Better. They will always be hated by ranchers though. The goal was 150 and the population now is about 1, 235.
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@Ineeddentures (43763)
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14 Aug
@celticeagle
That's really good.
We should reintroduce wolves here but the farmers are scared which is just an excuse
A 2025 study suggests reintroducing wolves to the Scottish Highlands could help native woodland regrow by reducing red deer numbers, potentially sequestering one million tonnes of CO2 annually.
So I don't see why we just don't do it
The Deer numbers need to be reduced
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@crossbones27 (53475)
• Mojave, California
14 Aug
@Ineeddentures What I find funny about whole thing is sure wolves need more food because they bigger but they no different than coyotes. Coyotes will make themselves visible to get your dog to walk in a ambush. I never seen a wolf pretty sure they smarter than coyotes and do not want to eat their brethren but I do get desperate times.
I also think the pack of a wolf is so smart they do not need to encroach on people's land, it usually the ones they kick out that get them in trouble. The lone wolf starving with out the pack,that's what I read anyway, I never seen them in the wild so I just go by what I read.
Now coyotes I have seen and they will set up your dog as all nice and playful to go ambush it in the pack. I never seen that part, but you can feel it if that makes sense. I seen one try to get Brooklyn and Kai to follow it to the pack. I never yelled so loud in my life. 
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@crossbones27 (53475)
• Mojave, California
14 Aug
I love wolves too they said a tiny pack from Yellowstone made it to Northern California, but I read they shot three of them. I do not care what anyone says, but if you took away all the people but you in the valley just surrounded by Mountain forest and just let it be nature, the wolves come out to howl. That would be my favorite thing to hear a wolf on top of a mountain here just howling,
@celticeagle (192386)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Aug
I found it fascinating. I had no idea.
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