Minnesota mystery beast stalking the Northwoods

[@stellangios]

Def the kind of dog that if you walk it down the street people would say "nice wolf"...but you put it in a pack of wolves and it's like, "wtf that's a dang dog" 😂😂

[@PatriciaDonovan-g9m]

That wolf just has a bit of "otherdog" in him.

[@desmomotodesmomoto2033]

What ever it is, he is thriving.

[@KarenRodriguez-bi7ft]

He’s thriving until some hunter shoots him.

[@RaidenB]

An absolutely beautiful creature that is

[@tacitusromanus8239]

Beautiful animal. Looks like a dog/wolf hybrid who has found his/her pack!

[@readytogo6569]

I hope he is still out there, doing the best impression of Buck. Jack London is smiling from on high❣️😊

[@sleepy580]

😊

[@grimm6176]

The idea of Jack London rising from his grave to report on a wolf-dog is so funny to me 😂

[@sleepy580]

😊

[@DonAshes]

Wow almost my own thoughts.

[@matilijapoppy1140]

we had a “european bear dog”. he was huge. people tried to name the different breeds of dog he might be. he was a gift as a puppy. my husband named him “moses”. he was very quiet. only howled when danger was present. he rarely barked except when playing stick fetch. lots more to the story. moses was an exceptional and beloved member of our family.

[@kittyemzcanada]

Everything about this one says the mix is more dog than wolf.

[@DeanAdventure]

Wolf and dog DNA is the same and not technically hybrids at all, respectively.

[@kittyemzcanada]

@@DeanAdventure 👍..Roughly about 98% the same. The mix sometimes can be guessed at pretty accurately by physical appearance. 💙

[@terencesullivan3286]

Definitely a high percentage of domestic dog in that one. They tell us our wolves here in Michigan (greatlakes population) are around 60% grey wolf. 30% coyote, and 10% domestic dog. Which is why we see so many black wolves. Amazing animals.

[@ruger8412]

@@DeanAdventure a dog is Canis lupus familiaris. They are a domesticated subspecies of grey wolves (Canis lupus). You mix the two to get a hybrid between the two. Definition of hybrid the offspring of two plants or animals of different species or different varieties of the same species "subspecies", such as a mule (a hybrid of a donkey and a horse). "the bird was a hybrid of a goose and a swan".

[@georgehanson2978]

Dogs are not descendants grey wolves. They are descendants of an extinct species of wolves.

[@christopheranderson2158]

It’s a mature timber wolf. Timbers are bigger than greys and have more variation in their coat…some with lots of red to almost black. Not sure why this is confusing anyone…..

[@jamesbender1967]

😂 True wolf geneticist/Taxonomist we have here. Canis Lupus Lycoan (“Eastern” Wolf) and Canis Lupus Nubilus (Great Plains Wolf) are both present in Minnesota. With our population in a vast hybridization state of Taxonomic flux. “Eastern” wolves are smaller with longer ears and narrower rostrum, they contain coyote DNA haplotypes. Some scientists argue they should be a listed as a separate species. Nubilus is a More pure “Grey” wolf with opposite characteristics as Lycoan; Larger overall body mass, shorter ears and wider rostrum (nose). 👌🏻 But yeah… “Timbers” and “Greys” as you were saying…. 😂

[@christopheranderson2158]

@@jamesbender1967 Thank you for the info. My point was that there was nothing “strange” about this wolf’s appearance and that it was not a wolf/dog hybrid as suggested by others….as your comment adroitly explains. Obviously without an actual DNA sample and test of its true genetic makeup, it’s impossible to know exactly what its makeup is…but the suggestion that it was a “mystery beast” was click bait since……it’s clearly a “wolf”.

[@whitedragon5578]

His a handsome good boy !! He has a nice family too ❤. Nice to see, thanks for sharing 👍

[@jeffvikings6240]

Looks to have some Malamute in him

[@mikem201]

yes

[@oldbroad7672]

I thought the same thing.

[@airy-mountain]

And some deer.

[@deanfirnatine7814]

100% yes

[@thewisecracker-rq1pu]

Interesting but there's far more crazy stuff that goes on in the Minnesota woods than this...

[@ryanm8572]

Such as?

[@thewisecracker-rq1pu]

@@ryanm8572 From personal experience- Blue and red orbs, rock clacking, wood knocks, footsteps through leaves breaking branches with nothing visibly responsible for it, phone battery going dead within 15 minutes from full charge twice in same spot on consecutive days, twinkling white lights high up in trees, odd grunting/hoofing sounds, goose bumps from feeling like you're being watched while alone, etc.

[@thewisecracker-rq1pu]

@@ryanm8572 Blue and red orbs seen by multiple people at one time, footsteps through leaves and cracking brush with nothing there visibly making the noises, wood knocks, hoofing/grunting sounds in dense fog, white flashes of light at night high up in the trees, phone battery going dead from full charge in 15 minutes twice in same location on consecutive days, etc. I could go on and on...

[@thewisecracker-rq1pu]

@@ryanm8572 I have tried replying several times but for reasons unknown, my posts keep getting removed. Makes no sense at all...

[@brandonburum8279]

@@ryanm8572- Hallucinations during the Arrowhead 135.

[@pammied52]

Whatever it is, it found a pack and is thriving.

[@KudaKeileon]

Guessing someone took a Chow/Malamute mix and bred it with a wolf.

[@kittyemzcanada]

@KudaKeileon ...yes...I was having difficulty trying to figure out the dog breed input for this one, and you defined it perfectly. It has that particular appearance in the face and the way it walks. 👍

[@Mary_Beth_Reimer]

@@KudaKeileon I'm glad someone else sees the chow in there!

[@ronsamborski6230]

I wonder if it has the purple tongue typical of Chow dogs?

[@Mary_Beth_Reimer]

@@ronsamborski6230 I haven't seen his mouth open yet.

[@jfu5222]

In northern Minnesota you will find what are sometimes called "reservation dogs". Many are large and a mix of among other things; sled dogs, shepherd, and possibly wolf. My brother had a couple of these over the years, the largest was an intelligent female with a thick sable colored coat and a generally wolfy appearance. She was lean and weighed close to 100 pounds. Dogs aren't fenced in around here so it's very easy to imagine one going feral.

[@nativestacker4185]

That is the new pup from Paw Patrol . Isn't he cute .

[@glenbo02]

My neighbor has a half husky, half German Shepherd, looks just like those. He's the sweetest disposition of any dog I've ever known, big blue eyes, teeth long and white, and just a big baby.

[@blackie1of4]

My thoughts as well.. could even be a shepherd wolf mix.. definitely shepherd in the genes.. in my opinion I had a German Shepherd/Border Collie mix.. looked very similar as well

[@Goldenhawk583]

those? It was 2 wolves and the fluffy one.. They dont look the same at al.

[@arectechafterwork9772]

Looks like a domestic mated with a wolf and this is the offspring. Bet that adds some real power to that pack.

[@Nirrrina]

I didn't realize that until I saw your comment. But he is quite a bit bigger than the others.

[@ruger8412]

This is a high content Hybrid with a inuit Eskimo dog. They are only about 300 pure Canadian Inuit Dogs or qimmiq left in the world. Id almost guaranteed it. They're the one's that have video's of them around Polar bears.

[@DeanAdventure]

I doubt it.

[@ruger8412]

@@DeanAdventure I'll probably never recover from you doubting me 🥱

[@driftlesshermit]

Dang ! Was hoping one of your trail cams saw a sasquatch.

[@Off-The-X]

That is one happy pup! Regardless of kind. It is where it wants to be. Freedom personified in an animal! Leave it be!

[@coldspring624]

Looks just like Serge a huge cross I had back in 80s. He was huge and smart as they come.

[@AnyM4jorDude]

Call of the wild!

[@user-tr4uo2fb4h]

It's ....a.....DOG[something]. I kept waiting to see some shadowy creature lurking in the treeline, but nope. just a dog[thing] that if it barked at you to jump, you'd say 'how high sir'

[@aloberdorf4579]

"None could place the Doggies Face, as they watched in solem awe"........LOL !!

[@suzyq1405]

I absolutely am fascinated by and love looking at wolves. Thanx for the video.❤

[@kapuzinergruft]

When I did some animal shelter support in Romania in 2001, we had dogs/wolves like this be shown to us.

[@JDthegamer209]

Looks like some sort of wolf/dog hybrid. Based on its many dog-like characteristics, it's probably about half and half if I had to guess.

[@hyenaboy7504]

In regards to the “possibly a hybrid that was released or escaped”, I’d still class it as being native to the ecosystem in terms of species.

[@inthewoods5494]

No! Dogs are not native to the wild. Wolfdogs are not wolves.

[@janemillerick9614]

@@inthewoods5494you’re correct on that but this thing however he got there seems to be thriving. seems doubtful he would ever be in a local pack. (if he’s an escapee as I suspect damn I hope he’s neutered.)

[@inthewoods5494]

@@janemillerick9614 an animal being able to survive in the wild doesn’t mean it belongs

[@janemillerick9614]

@@inthewoods5494 too true. just like wild animals should not be pets and dogs shouldn’t be bred with wolves.

[@hyenaboy7504]

@@inthewoods5494 that proves this is not a hybrid.

[@slimhanson5792]

Wolf Hybrid/Malamute.

[@user-tr4uo2fb4h]

lol- google put a 'translate to english' under your comment. I read it just fine ;-)

[@ronsamborski6230]

@@user-tr4uo2fb4h Google sometimes doesn’t have a clue! 🤣

[@boxbackknitties]

Mysterious Beast indeed! Just in time for Halloween.

[@REIronminer]

100% wolf. Seen several of them in da UP….. some getting up to 200 lbs. Just a different line.

[@AmandaFredette]

lol! The way it walks fast the same way in every camera shot and angle 🤣

[@karinabrampt1556]

Is it possibly a cross breed of wolf and German Shepherd, or Malinois.

[@KudaKeileon]

Reminder to everyone that thinks it's a coywolf or coyote hybrid that coyotes are considerably smaller than wolves and thus a hybrid would be smaller than a full wolf too.

[@anton1949]

They used to call them 'brush wolves' around Cherry Minnesota.

[@awkonradi]

He/she needs a name. I propose "Jack", as a tribute to (the real) Jack London.

[@Pearleace]

We've been calling it "Buck".

[@aaron-dd5zr]

In Vermont we call that a Koi Dog. Part Wolf or Coyote mixed with a Demestic dog. Looks like German Shepherd colors. Beautiful Creature.

[@timtambornino5297]

He is not leading but he is hanging with the younger wolves. He is not skinny.

[@k.r.outlaw5252]

…..just like the northeast coydog, some wolf got to liking a feral.

[@henrivinkeles8288]

The most beautyfull creature on this world ❤

[@LidaDuplessis-g6s]

❤❤❤❤❤❤ awesome 💯

[@aboxinspace]

After reading the description, I'd like to start a movement to name this beautiful wolfdogsomething "Jack London" ❤😂

[@yoseflaurent3376]

Wolves and dogs will cross-breed anytime allowed to, so there is nothing incredible in that hypothesis. Otherwise it could just be a physically different wolf, since similar wolves are observed in other parts of the world. The animal seems to get along very well with other wolves anyway. At any rate, thank you for sharing this fine footage.

[@Mary_Beth_Reimer]

Looks like a wolf/chow chow hybrid

[@mikjb]

Looks like a German Shepard cross to me. The more interesting question to me is how come there is only 1 that looks like that in the pack? Is this the first? How did it happen? Did someone releases a dog wolf hybrid that they could not control? The first question leads to many others. If it is a release how miraculous that the pack adopted it. I would have thought it would have been run off or killed like a coyote. Or are all we are seeing is some very old latent genetic material coming to the surface?

[@mikjb]

@@kittyemzcanada I have seen intentionally crossed wolf Shepard crosses and they look like that. There are other videos that show this animal with the pack. In fact if you look at this video it shows this animal with other wolves aide by side like it is a normal thing. Packs will often string out on a trail so it is no great feat to isolate a single member for the purposes of highlighting them in a video. I am betting on natural genetics being expressed not unlike the black and white wolves that will show up.

[@kittyemzcanada]

@mikjb .. We will never know for sure what it's story is. Considering the fact that it's an image captured on a trail camera, and short viewing time, we can only guess at it's genetic background. It's a beautiful animal, no matter who it's non-wolf parent was.

[@Mary_Beth_Reimer]

@@mikjb I did read an article in Newsweek, I think it was, that chows are the closest genetically speaking to wolves. It would definitely be interesting if it was a throwback!

[@mikjb]

@@Mary_Beth_Reimer They have film of an almost entirely black pack. Color morphs are not unheard of. This animal looks to natural in its behaviors for me to go too far down the intentionally realeased rabbit hole. Interesting to puzzle over though.

[@fawnasaur]

Hey it’s Buck!

[@PolnocneGranie]

Direwolf is that you? Jokes aside, very handsome lookin boy

[@robertchamberlain452]

He`s the beast of Minnesota you don`t want your fingers near! LOL

[@shannonimmigrant3539]

Buck: Call of the Wild Jack London

[@gus473]

If both TMZ and The Daily Mail are already on the case, can NewsMax and The New York Post be far behind?!? 🙄😉😅

[@Mary_Beth_Reimer]

Let's not encourage the kind of people who read those to come traipsing through our north woods!!

[@ruger8412]

Boebert is on the case😅

[@patriciasalem3606]

I had a rescued Mal for a short while that I thought might have been a wolf-dog hybrid. He was an absolute Houdini and could get out of anything I tried to contain him in. So, an escaped hybrid who roamed into the area is a good guess. The orbital angles on your fluffy guy don't look quite the same as a wolf's to me, so I don't think it's merely a coat mutation. He also runs more like a dog, with less leg lift and none of that sort of skipping quality you see to wolf movement.

[@Mr_Anderson_II]

A great example of sensationalist click-bait headlines

[@hyenaboy7504]

Only this time, it isn’t clickbait.

[@TheQueensWish]

It isn’t click bait.

[@Sammy-n2q]

If I was in the woods seeing them. I would assumed they were dogs and going up close to it, to pet it and telling them that they aren't alone in the woods. LOL!

[@TheJabady]

The legs are too short, and the gait is different for it to be a full-blooded wolf…

[@scottlund4562]

Looking at how much space is between his front legs, definitely a mix.

[@NATASEXISTS]

A once tame but now wild male canine that is dominant and strong enough to run with a pack of wolves. Wow i love mother natures special surprises.

[@lindalane2244]

A couple years ago someone dumped a bunch of Husky and Malamute dogs. Not all were caught. Not sure it’s possible, unlikely a domestic dog wouldn’t have been killed by the wolves but this guy does have a thicker build like a malamute.

[@johnbouchard9447]

Looks like a cross between a wolf and an Alaskan malamute.

[@DeanAdventure]

He looks very similar to my wolf dog. Mine is low- mid content with Husky, Malamute, Shephard, and timber wolf. The only difference is the hair length. Dog and wolf DNA is the same so it would be hard to tell without genetic testing. You can see my wolf dog and genetic testing on my channel.

[@CherieFord]

That's definitely a hybrid of some kind of dog and wolf.!!!! Sure is beautiful to look at.- would make a great sled dog - just look at the size of it. 25-35 of them would be a mushers dream team and the guy would be winning all of his races and then some..

[@blobbertmcblob4888]

Omg this brought back memories. My grandparents had a rough collie/wolf dog that looked *exactly* like that. He was a good boi....you just didn't let him around livestock or small animals. That dog killed SO many cats :(

[@k.e.becquer4681]

Looks like a mix between a German Shepherd and Wolf.

[@snowgorilla9789]

He identifies as "beast"

[@mmrw]

Is it someone’s escaped pet? Or is it an actual hybrid?

[@sharonb537]

The front legs are super close together and that black tipped tail sure look like a wolf but he has the body and stride of a dog. Interesting hybrid.

[@Liberty_Tree]

That's a nice looking Dolf.

[@hopalstudiosjuliehattis]

Looks like y'all have a half wolf half husky hanging out there. 😊❤

[@LostForessst]

My first thought is that it has some malamute in it too.

[@sentientstill]

they're turnin' the friggin' dogs gay

[@orionsmithey3009]

This is probably a hybrid of a dog and a wolf.

[@KellyRichards-qf3fo]

This animal is BEAUTIFUL and should be PROTECTED from humans !!! We must do more to protect ecosystems - wildlife and their natural habitats. Thank you

[@theneurologist1]

My friend growing up had a pet dog like this. Part German shepherd part wolf. But its fur was much thicker and tail more bushy 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@DeeSmith001]

Wolf, coyote and husky hybrid by the look of it. We have wolf/coyote hybrids here in the northeast of North America, so this was inevitable.

[@Freethinkers219]

That's a good boy just looking for a little snack

[@kingfisher9553]

A really big wolf/dog has gone wild.

[@lucashedtke7980]

German Shepherd/Wolf

[@buddapudgie8482]

It looks like the hybrid offspring of a stray dog (German Shepard) or Malamute that mated with a wild Wolf.

[@herpingandfishingwithlogan]

Looks like a wolfdog hybrid or something, hopefully it’s still thriving

[@lightning9279]

In Western Asia shepherds testify that the wolf populations will allow sheep guard dogs to join the wolf pack. Scientists seem to think that this is done to broaden the genetics of the clan.

[@leeh-xh1iw]

Are they protected in that area?

[@wildswan221]

When a dog and a wolf like each other very much…

[@wildguy4773]

Two possible things One is that its and stray dog, probably an malamute or smth Second its an wolf and dog hybrid

[@TobiasUnterweger]

Cool Video cool KZbin 🐺👍🏻

[@ianspingle8865]

Need some DNA analysis but definitely some kind of dog in there possibly malamut husky maybe.

[@Mary_Beth_Reimer]

Chow chow? He's got the fur and partial coloring of one, and he curls his tail up over his back sometimes.

[@ruger8412]

Crossed with a Canadian Inuit Dog aka qimmiq.

[@ianspingle8865]

Possibly

[@SkadooHusky]

Just a particularly fluffy boi

[@HuplesCat]

The Daily Mail is a terrible news source for anything

[@Octopuscoast]

Are there any Buffalo wolves left ? Just wondering ....😊

[@tired7140]

Looks like a Wolf / German Shepard mix.

[@CharlesNorgaard-n8n]

Buck abides! All of you Jack London fans know what I'm talking about.

[@thedjc100]

Dog, coyote and wolf combo?

[@SilkySifaka89]

Looks more dog than coyote

[@ppurem]

Since when can animals have 3 some babies

[@francoisebeylie2923]

Is it half a wolf and half a dog ?

[@edbetsworth2772]

It’s a wolf dog mix. Not surprising.

[@Wibtlol]

Title is hilarious.

[@AnAlbertaGirlAtHeart]

I’d wager he’s got some dog in him. Beautiful animal

[@susanmarie7777]

Wolf or wolf mix. Where’s the mystery? Did I miss something?

[@cuda6872]

Wolfdog that got loose and luckily joined a pack or it's a hybrid.

[@adriangreenoff7879]

I've heard of sheep in wolfs clothing,but never a german shepherd 😁

[@philipargo]

Trail cams with audio, huh?

[@davemanone3661]

Wow, never saw a wolf before. Sick and tired of the clickbait!

[@1967foghorn]

right out of ''To Build A Fire''

[@ronsamborski6230]

I read that short story many years ago and it’s interesting to have someone mention it in a KZbin comment section. 🪓