Two trappers in Fairbanks, Alaska, caught one of the largest wolves ever encountered in the wild shortly before Christmas.
Tyler Freel, a staff writer for Outdoor Life based in Fairbanks, wrote that two local recreational trappers, Morgan Evans and Bob Standley, notified him on Dec. 22 shortly after they caught the creature.
The writer received a picture of the enormous black wolf along with a message: “We’re taking it to get it weighed on a certified scale right now.”
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As Freel recounted, “I knew, as well as he did, that this could be one of the largest wolves ever recorded.”
The massive predator indeed weighed 149.6 pounds on a certified scale, easily exceeding any other wolf any of the experienced trappers had previously handled.
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