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The wolverine's questionable reputation as an insatiable glutton (reflected in its Latin genus name Gulo, meaning "glutton") may be in part due to a false etymology.The less common name for the animal in Norwegian, fjellfross, meaning "mountain cat", is thought to have worked its way into German as Vielfraß, [5] which means "glutton" (literally "devours much").
The majority of wolves are known for dispersing from their birth pack; this makes measuring attachment behavior within the packs difficult. [9] There are cases in which wolves leave their pack, typically when accompanying siblings of the same sex. [9] This behaviour is suggested to be adaptive, which will benefit pack mates in future conflicts. [9]
The Diamond pack, in the state’s mountainous Sierra Valley, is made up of two wolves, one of which is known to be female, Hunnicutt said. There’s no evidence that the wolves are a breeding pair.
The white-tailed deer is the state mammal of Ohio. This list of mammals of Ohio includes a total of 70 mammal species recorded in the state of Ohio. [1] Of these, three (the American black bear, Indiana bat, and Allegheny woodrat) are listed as endangered in the state; four (the brown rat, black rat, house mouse, and wild boar) are introduced; three (the gray bat, Mexican free-tailed bat and ...
Wolves are known as pack animals, but in that first year on Isle Royale, the newly arrived wolves went solo. They were "moving around a lot more, killing smaller prey and being really territorial ...
The so-called "eastern coyote" of northeastern North America probably originated in the aftermath of the extermination of gray and eastern wolves in the northeast, thus allowing coyotes to colonize former wolf ranges and mix with the remnant wolf populations. This hybrid is smaller than either the gray or eastern wolf, and holds smaller ...
The survival of one of the world’s rarest animal species – the red wolf – depends on a federal plan that could include breeding and releasing the shy canines in South Carolina.
The size of a wolf hunting pack is related to the number of pups that survived the previous winter, adult survival, and the rate of dispersing wolves leaving the pack. The optimal pack size for hunting elk is four wolves, and for bison a large pack size is more successful. [3]