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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").
Indigenous groups in many areas of the world successfully defended and defeated multiple European colonization campaigns for decades due to primitive unorthodox warfare techniques like smaller mobile units, using small arms as opposed to artillery, open formations, frequent uses of ambushes and raids, surprise attacks, destruction of ...
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.
The indigenous peoples in the countries involved in the War of the Pacific (1879–1884), Bolivia, Chile and Peru were variously impacted by direct warfare, mobilisation and taxation during the war. At the start of the war three quarters of the population of Peru lived in the Andean highlands where indigenous peoples were in majority. [1]
Most wolverines in the US were wiped out by the early 1990s due to unregulated trapping and poisoning campaigns, meaning only about 300 are left in the wild, living high up in the northern Rocky ...
The North American wolverine has officially been listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act and will receive long-anticipated federal protections, US officials announced Wednesday, as ...
In fact, Samuel’s world, say some, is one that erases the Indigenous roots of characters and the significance of Black and Native relations in U.S. history, all for the sake of creative liberty ...
See also: Native Americans and World War II About 44,000 Native men and 800 women joined the military during World War II. [17] There are many reasons that Natives joined the United States military, such as a way to advance their education or opportunities to earn money and receive life experience outside of their hometown. [17]