Wolf of haul street...

Animal steals crabs from traps

- BY GILES SHELDRICK

AN ingenious wild wolf pulls a crab trap out of the water to eat the bait.

Video captured the remarkable moment the animal swims to shore with a buoy in her mouth before dropping it on the ground.

Next, she grabs the line attached to the buoy and gently pulls it until a crab trap emerges from the water.

She hauls it to the shore before chewing her way into a canister holding herring used as bait.

The accidental discovery came after traps set to stop the spread of European green crab - an invasive species ravaging local ecosystems - were being damaged in British Columbia, Canada.