Beavers play an important roll as an alternative chakula chanzo in the summer months, in some areas 60% of the wolf's diet is beaver.
One of the most odd part of the diet of Mbwa mwitu loups is fish! Biologist Bod Bromley once observed a mbwa mwitu in Canada's Northwest Territories catch five samaki in fifteen dakika in the Talston River.
Mbwa mwitu loups will also scavenge, In one study of moose carcasses in Algonquin Park, of 30 moose only 4 were killed kwa wolves, the rest died of natural causes.
Mbwa mwitu loups will also eat wild berries and other matunda as a minor part of their diet.