Lone Wolf
Bertie Gregory captured this photograph of an alpha female standing along the coast of Vancouver Island, Canada, in 2011.
Meet the Rare Swimming Wolves That Eat Seafood
Unlike their interior cousins, coastal wolves of Vancouver Island live with two paws in the ocean and two paws on land.
They move like ghosts along the shorelines of Canada's Vancouver Island, so elusive that people rarely see them lurking in the mossy forests.
British filmmaker Bertie Gregory was one of the lucky ones: He saw coastal wolves—also known as sea wolves—in 2011.
"There is something about being in the presence of a coastal wolf—they just have this magic and aura around them," he says.
That experience inspired him to return and document the animals for National Geographic’s first YouTube series, wild_life with bertie gregory, which launches August 3.
“Coastal wolves are such a unique predator, and they are hunting in this absolutely epic landscape,” says Gregory. Roughly the size of Maryland, the island and its remote western fringes
