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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").
Wolverines require healthy snowpacks that persist late into the spring and don't like development or persistent human presence. Between February and May, females den and raise kits in the ...
Nov. 29—Wolverines are now protected as a threatened species in the Lower 48 under the federal Endangered Species Act, bringing an extensive legal dispute to a close. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...
The wolverine is the largest land-dwelling species in the mammal family called Mustelidae, making it a close cousin of weasels, ferrets, skunks and badgers.
Wolverines can crush bones as thick as the femur of a moose to get at the marrow, and have been seen attempting to drive bears away from their kills. The sea otter uses rocks to break open shellfish to eat. Martens are largely arboreal, while European badgers dig extensive tunnel networks, called setts.
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There are no natural wolverines believed to be living in Michigan and yet we feel strangely possessive about this mean, nocturnal weasel. Feds list wolverines as threatened species, we wonder ...
The family Mustelidae, or mustelids (which also includes badgers, otters, and wolverines), is often referred to as the "weasel family". In the UK, the term "weasel" usually refers to the smallest species , the least weasel ( M. nivalis ), [ 1 ] the smallest carnivoran species.