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OH CANADA — If the movies have taught us anything, it is this: You should always be frightened if a wild animal starts aggressively stalking you like it’s out for some sort of revenge.
When sharks, bears, snakes on planes, rats, alligators or any other beast with vengeful behavior starts stalking characters, you’re going to need a bigger boat. Even in real life, if you spot an animal in the open wild, you’ll have to do some smart thinking to avoid an unwanted encounter.
But sometimes you get lucky with nature. In one real-life scenario, a family’s encounter with what appears to be a gray wolf is more magical than scary, and that’s 100 percent due to the fact that they get to experience it from the safety of their car. (Plus they weren’t foolish enough to stop and somehow interact with the wolf.)
In the video, the wolf chases a car filled with people down a road in British Columbia for a couple of kilometers. And I have to say, it’s pretty neat watching a wolf loping down the road a few feet from a car even if nothing else happens. I’m duly envious of their experience.
According to the video description, there were fires in the area when the encounter occurred last month, which may account for the wolf’s behavior of risking the road.
