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Wolves and Wolverines: A Complicated Relationship


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    BlackHatGuy
    Spectator

    @sleeping

    Locale: The Cascades

    An interesting, short read.

    #3578455
    Bruce Tolley
    BPL Member

    @btolley

    Locale: San Francisco Bay Area

    Very interesting. Thanks for sharing Doug.

    Now I want to find out how a wolverine that is no bigger than a cocker spaniel stalks and kills a caribou.

    Cheers.

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    Ethan A.
    BPL Member

    @mountainwalker

    Locale: SF Bay Area & New England

    Doug thanks for sharing. The mustelids / weasels (wolverines, otters, badgers, ferrets, martens and minks) are amazing creatures. Probably the most successful and adaptable hunting mammal family.

    I’m doubtful a single wolf took out this wolverine. Wolves’ strength is operating as a team and attacking and distracting a victim from many sides at once. A single wolf would be taking a huge risk taking on a wolverine.

    Bruce I would guess that they take them down similar to how they’ve been recorded dispatching polar bears and how their African cousins the honey badgers have taken out massive Cape buffaloes. Wolverines have been recorded suffocating polar bears to death by crushing their throats with their strong jaws and honey badgers have killed male Cape buffaloes by tearing apart their groins causing fatal bleeding.

    Perhaps their biggest weakness, outside of sensitivity to habitat destruction from climate change, is overeating. They have been known to gorge themselves to death, including devouring porcupines so quickly they don’t remove the quills, which later kill them.

     

    #3578772
    AK Granola
    BPL Member

    @granolagirlak

    I wonder why they don’t attack humans. They could easily take one down.

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    Greg Mihalik
    Spectator

    @greg23

    Locale: Colorado
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    David Noll
    BPL Member

    @dpnoll

    Locale: Maroon Bells

    Thanks. Fascinating animals.

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