A wolf was filmed pulling bait out of a submerged crab trap — with some experts howling with glee that it could be the first documented evidence of the beasts using tools.

The female wolf was recently caught on camera wading into the ocean off a British Columbia, Canada beach to grab the buoy of a herring-filled trap sunken well below the waves and completely out of sight.

Once the canine had the buoy its teeth, she swam back to shore and hauled on its line until the crab trap was beached.

She then tore into it with her snout until she got her paws on the delicious fillet of fish within.

“It’s a sequence of behaviors that ultimately gets her towards that goal. It’s problem-solving, and it’s problem-solving exactly the way humans do it,” said Kyle Artelle, assistant State University o

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