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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").
This is a list of the native wild mammal species recorded in Greenland.There are 26 mammal species native to Greenland, of which none are critically endangered, three are endangered, three are vulnerable, two are near threatened and four are data deficient. [1]
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 ...
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 ...
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Caribou are not just what we eat; they are who we are. They are in our stories and songs and the whole way we see the world. Caribou are our life. Without caribou we wouldn't exist." [15]: 70 Traditionally, their tents and most of their clothing were made out of caribou skin, and they lived "mostly on caribou and all other wild meats."
Across most of the U.S., wolverines were wiped out by the early 1900s from unregulated trapping and poisoning campaigns. Wolverines join a growing number of animals, plants and insects — from ...
Ravens, cranes, wolverines, foxes, otters, and dogs must never be eaten. The heads of caribou, moose, and Dall sheep may not be fed to the dogs; to do so would bring the hunter poor luck. Neither the bones nor the carcasses of fur-bearing animals may be fed to dogs and must be cached in a safe place.