These wondrous sea wolves swim for miles and live off the watery wilds

In a remote stretch of rainforest on Canada’s Pacific coast, a unique population of wolves has taken to a life of the sea.



Along the wild Pacific coast of British Columbia – a misty wonderland of
craggy glacier-gouged shores and temperate rainforest – there lives a
population of wolves genetically and behaviorally distinct from the
rest. They’ve traded in deer and sheep and mountain goats for the bounty
of the sea. They’ve been known to swim up to eight miles to get from
the mainland to an island; they live on barnacles and herring roe, seals
and dead whales. Some 90 percent of their food comes directly from the
ocean…

These wondrous sea wolves swim for miles and live off the watery wilds

Russian proverbs about wolves

  • с волками жить — по-волчьи выть • (s volkámi žit’ – po-vólč’i vyt’) when in Rome, do as the Romans do (literally, to live amongst wolves, you should howl like a wolf)
  • сколько волка ни корми, он всё в лес смотрит • (skólʹko vólka ni kormí, on vsjo v les smótrit) a leopard cannot change its spots (literally, however good you feed the wolf, it still looks onto the forest)
  • работа не волк, в лес не убежит • (rabóta ne vólk, v les ne ubežit) All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy (literally, work is not like a wolf, it won’t run away from you onto the forest).
  • волка ноги кормят • (vólka nóghi kórmiat) The dog that trots about finds the bone (literally, wolf lives by its legs).

Russian proverbs about wolves