Ever seen a wolf go gopher-mode? Extraordinary footage out of China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region where a pack of wolves were filmed by a drone tunneling through 3-foot deep snow. The footage was taken by a local herder. Wolf researcher Dave Mech was bit perplexed as to why they were out in the middle of this snow field and theorized the might have just been sleeping and it snowed a bunch before they moved along.

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