A wolf fishing in Alaska

i've seen this in the wild before whether this particular pic is true or not. Even done it myself (with my hands, my muzzle is kinda short lol) Try it in slow moving streams, be quiet and still as it can take awhile. Salmon are easy, catfish are hard. utahu.stumbleupon.com

They even narrated it and everything

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjVSyQkqZ7s

Klink

I love how there's always some jackass that says something is photoshopped. This isn't some extreme out-of-the-ordinary event.

A wolf can swim, a wolf needs food, so many salmon in the river that you would be blind to not see them, Wolf catches its dinner.
Where's the surprise? I dont find it odd at all.
Congratulations to the photographer though, a nice set of shots.

My Border collie plucked a fish out of a pond in front of witnesses. Unbelievable at the time, she had spent years watching the fish swim around when we would be sitting on the dock. Just had opportunity when the water was finally level with the dock. Dogs and wolves smart and lovable.

Being an Alaskan I can vouch for this anomoly. Actually there are many animals that will take advantage of this plentiful and rich food source. Wolves and foxes are usually on the edge of the water anyways stealing scraps the bears leave behind. Only a matter of time before they go after the food themselves!

If you will look closely, you will see a wolf that is skinny and that needs protein. Seeing other animals find it quickly and easily, and finding a place where the fish have to pause before moving further upstream, it found a location it could catch fish in, and does.

Why do people have to see things that don't exist before they see the things the pictures put before your very eyes?

looks horrid, photochopped

See if you can follow this logic, one baby step at a time:

1. There is a wolf that's able to get around in the water better than other wolves can (because it has slightly less fur to slow it down, say)
2. such a wolf will likely catch more fish
3. a well-fed wolf has the luxury of living to reproduction age and making more babies
4. these babies will also be good at getting around in the water, and therefore catch more fish, and therefore leave more babies of their own, carrying their genes.
5. several generations down the road, maybe there will even be some wolves that are able to "swim". These wolves will therefore be better able to catch fish (and eat better, and make more babies and pass down the "swimming" gene).
6. Fast forward a few eons and you now have an animal that spends more time in water than on land. Something like a seal, perhaps.
7. Fast forward some more and you may end up with something like a dolphin or a whale (water mammals that were once land mammals).

Funny thing about speciation events is that we can only recognize them in distant hindsight. At the time of their occurrence, they don't really look like anything special. No swirl of angels descends from the heavens trumpeting the birth of a new species.

If you can understand this, then you understand 95% of everything there is to understand about the essence of evolution. Congratulations! That wasn't so difficult, was it?