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Parks Canada has issued an aggressive wolf warning for Banff National Park after a ski-hill employee had to flee on a snowmobile from a pack of wolves.

The alert was issued Thursday, the day after the three remaining members of a notorious wolf pack in the Bow Valley got a little too close for comfort to a worker at Mount Norquay, prompting him to hop on his snowmobile, as the pack pursued him for a short time.

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Bill Hunt, resource conservation manager with Banff National Park, said it’s extremely odd for wolves to approach large machines such as snow-making equipment.

“The snow-making equipment is loud, the Ski-Doo is loud, so the fact that they didn’t seem to be deterred by that is a concern,” he told Postmedia.

“It could have been curious behaviour, it could have just been an instinctual response to follow something that was moving away, or it could have been more aggressive than that — we don’t know.”