The Wapiti Wolf Pack of Yellowstone National Park was feeding on a bison carcass recently, prompting park officials to put out traffic cones to mark off the area.
Obviously, the pups of the pack didn’t much care about traffic control or protecting their kill, since they took the opportunity to snatch up a traffic cone and play with it in the snow.
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Kyle Warren captured video of the “shenanigans,” along with the pups playing on a snowbank.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkifefTJy7c
“Some of the members of the Wapati Wolf Pack were feeding on a bison carcass,” Warren said in describing his video, taken March 29 but posted by ViralHog last Wednesday.
“They had taken one of the traffic cones several days prior from the road. I thought the wolves were leaving the area. Instead, they grabbed the cone and started playing with it.”
Yellowstone Wolf Tracker also posted Facebook video of the pups playing with a traffic cone, saying several other cones were moved about “no doubt the work of these pups.”
https://www.facebook.com/277378085638076/videos/6074936469215513
Apparently, this isn’t a first in Yellowstone. Wolf pack pups have played with traffic cones in the park before.
Photo courtesy of ViralHog.
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