Zoologist Roland Kays on Sunday tweeted an image showing members of a Michigan wolf pack in the darkness and asked followers how many animals they could spot.
We’re asking the same question, using the same trail-cam image and two others that show a different number of wolves (see immediately below).
Can you spot the wolves in all three images? (Answers are provided at the end of the post, with red circles showing animals that aren’t as clearly visible.)
The images were captured on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula via motion-sensor cameras monitored by Diana Lafferty, Assistant Professor of Wildlife Ecology at Northern Michigan University.
The top image was captured in September 2020; the other two were captured in 2019.
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They show members of the Echo Lake wolf pack, which inhabits a territory that spans about 30 square miles across wilderness and rural communities near Marquette, Mich.
The five-member pack hunts as a social unit and preys on white-tailed deer and smaller mammals.
The top image was captured as part of an ongoing trail-cam research project run by NMU Master’s student Tru Hubbard and Lafferty.
Kays, in his Twitter post, tagged Snapshot USA, a collaborative camera-trapping project he leads at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science, along with Bill McShea of the Smithsonian Institution and researchers from other states.
Below are the answers (five wolves in the first image, four in the last two) and we apologize if the animals were too easy to spot.
