How Wolves Travel In Packs

Watch Entire Wolf Pack Roaming Minnesota Wilderness in Stunning Footage

"Stunning" footage showing an entire pack of gray wolves traveling through the snowy Minnesota wilderness has been released past researchers at the University of Minnesota.

The extremely rare footage was taken by a research group chosen the Voyageurs Wolf Project, which is run past the academy.

It shows 7 wolves in ane frame as they traveled through a "remote and wild" part of Voyageurss National Park, Minnesota.

"Rarely practice we become the entire pack in a i frame", they said in a Facebook post.

The footage, captured last fall, was found after the research group checked their trail photographic camera supplies, which are fix upward around the park to keep an centre on the wolves living in the park.

In the video, the wolves can exist seen traveling along the Cranberry Bay part of Voyageurs National Park, where snowfall covers the ground.

Some sniff the footing and fodder earlier moving on and exiting the frame.

The Voyageurs Wolf Project said in the wintertime of 2020, this particular pack was only four wolves strong. The pack then had four pups in spring, 2021. The projection said that this footage indicates that at to the lowest degree iii of the pups take survived, if not all of them.

"Three of wolves in the video definitely look similar pups and mayhap a 4th but hard to say," they wrote in the Facebook post.

"The lighter gray wolf is V083 who is the breeding male person and the darker colored ear-tagged wolf is V084 the breeding female. Both wolves had collars on from 2019 until this autumn when the collars dropped off."

Pack of wolves — A stock prototype shows a pack of wolves. There are effectually 6 to 9 packs of wolf in the Voyageurs national park. John Moore/Getty Images

Voyageurs National Park has a population of between 30 and 50 wolves, divided into six to 9 packs. This has remained relatively unchanged since the 1990s.

The Voyageurs Wolf Project focuses on one of the "biggest knowledge gaps in wolf ecology," which is what wolves do during the summer. They exercise this past attaching GPS collars to the wolves and setting up trail cameras.

Throughout the winter, the gray wolves hunt every bit packs and kill large prey such as moose and deer, just once wolf pups are built-in in the spring, they get more than lone predators.

They typically and then render to and from a den or some other rendezvous site between bouts of hunting.

The gray wolf is native to North America. In 2019, a population survey past the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources showed there were an estimated two,699 wolves in the state.