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Skinny Moose Media [92] Roderick Phillip: 35 yrs. ♂: 2009-09-10, 2 a.m. Rabid: along the Kuskokwim River near Kalskag, Alaska, U.S. Phillip and his three hunting partners were camped and Phillips took an unarmed stroll down to the river to look for moose. He was attacked by a rabid, white, 16-month old male lone wolf weighing more than 100 ...
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").
During winter, they primarily eat the carcasses of animals that have died of natural causes and the carcasses of moose and caribou left by wolves and hunters. The rest of the year their diet consists of smaller animals, such as voles, squirrels, snowshoe hares, and birds. On rare occasions, wolverines may kill moose or caribou. [34]
The wolf must give chase and gain on its fleeing prey, slow it down by biting through thick hair and hide, and then disable it enough to begin feeding. [4] After chasing and then confronting a large prey animal, the wolf makes use of its 6 cm (2 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) fangs and its powerful masseter muscles to deliver a bite force of 28 kg/cm 2 (400 lbf/in 2), which is capable of breaking open the ...
The Western moose [2] (Alces alces andersoni) is a subspecies of moose that inhabits boreal forests and mixed deciduous forests in the Canadian Arctic, western Canadian provinces and a few western sections of the northern United States. It is the second largest North American subspecies of moose, second to the Alaskan moose.
There are around 300 wolverines left in the wild in the US, and could face extinction due to the melting of their habitat
Dec. 1—The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has determined that shorter winters and springs with reduced high-elevation snowpacks brought on by climate change are degrading habitat for wolverines ...
A 70-year-old Alaska man who was attempting to take photos of two newborn moose calves was attacked and killed by their mother, authorities said Monday. The man killed Sunday was identified as ...