'That is super cool!': N.W.T. man can't believe what he's filming — a wolf pack in the wild

Morgan Watsyk admits his eyesight is pretty bad, so at first he thought those dark forms on the road ahead were mountain goats.

"Because I'm getting closer to Wrigley [N.W.T], right? You're getting closer to the mountains and whatnot," he recalled.

"But I was thinking there shouldn't be no herd of mountain goats in this area."

He quickly whipped out his phone and zoomed in to get a better look. The video captures his surprise.

"This a pack of wolves?" an incredulous Watsyk says in the 16-second video. "Holy shit! That's a pack of wolves! Oh wow, that is super cool!" 

It was indeed a pack of wolves. Eleven of them, it looks like, spread across the remote and snowy road. They soon seem to notice Watsyk's vehicle and start running up the highway before the short video ends.

"I was really definitely quite amazed to see 11 wolves at once. So yeah, somebody was definitely looking after me there that day!" Watsyk said later.

The Fort Simpson, N.W.T., man has lived in the North for most of his life and he's spotted plenty of cool animals — bears, foxes, coyotes. But he'd never seen a wolf in the wild, let alone a whole pack.

Watsyk said he kept his vehicle slowly moving toward them and got pretty close before they turned and vanished into the forest.

"I just hope somebody doesn't come up and decide to poacher these poor animals because yeah, they are gorgeous. They are gorgeous beasts," he said.

He later posted his video on Facebook and it soon had thousands of views. 

Dean Cluff, a wildlife biologist with the N.W.T. government, saw the video and he shares Watsyk's enthusiasm.

"He said it was super cool — and I think it is," Cluff said. "It is an awesome sighting ... unless you're flying and seeing it from the air, you know, you often don't see a whole pack."

Even Cluff has only ever seen a pack of wolves from the air. On the ground, the elusive animals are more often spotted alone or in pairs, if at all.