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The news, revealed Thursday by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, describes the second time such a mammal has been spotted in the California wild in nearly 100 years.
At last, the incredibly rare wild wolverine has reappeared. Only two have been spotted in California in the last 100 years.
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In March 2013, he returned to Oregon and was found in 2014 raising a litter of pups in Rogue River–Siskiyou National Forest. Being so near to the California border, he crossed back and forth repeatedly. [18] He is presumed to have died at about 11 years old, an above-average lifespan for a wild wolf. [15]
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").
Gulo is a genus of carnivoran mammals in the family Mustelidae.It contains one extant species, the wolverine (G. gulo), as well as several extinct ones. Fossil evidence suggests that this genus appeared in North America and later spread to Eurasia during the Pliocene.
A wolverine was spotted three times last month in the eastern Sierra Nevada, a rare occurrence for an animal that's only been seen one other time in California over the last 100 years, state ...
One species of right whale occurs in California's waters. North Pacific right whale, Eubalaena japonica (vagrant) Order: Cetacea Family: Delphinidae. Twelve species of dolphins occur in California's waters. Short-beaked common dolphin, Delphinus delphis [1] Long-beaked common dolphin, Delphinus capensis [2] Short-finned pilot whale ...