Find it here. WCS Canada scientist, Dr. Matt Scrafford talks about wolverine family dynamics in this piece for Canadian Geographic.
We describe the incredible behaviours of wolverines, and the lengths we're going to to save them in a new visual story map. Tracking wolverines is no easy feat.
Matt Scrafford talks about his unlikely allies in researching wolverines in the Ontario Northern Boreal in this new Muddy Boots blog. Searching for wolverines in a vast northern wilderness. Our Chief Scientist, Dr. These tough animals are solitary, and they need a lot of room to roam.
Individual wolverines may travel 15 miles in a day in search of food. Because of these habitat requirements, wolverines frequent remote boreal forests, taiga, and tundra in the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and North America. Wolverines eat a bit of vegetarian fare, like plants and berries, in the summer season, but this does not make up a major part of their diet—they are tenacious predators with a taste for meat.
Wolverines easily dispatch smaller prey, such as rabbits and rodents, but may even attack animals many times their size, such as caribou, if the prey appears to be weak or injured.
These opportunistic eaters also feed on carrion—the corpses of larger mammals, such as elk, deer, and caribou. Such finds sustain them in winter when other prey may be thinner on the ground, though they have also been known to dig into burrows and eat hibernating mammals.
Males scent-mark their territories, but they share them with several females and are believed to be polygamous. Females den in the snow or under similar cover to give birth to two or three young each late winter or early spring.
Kits sometimes live with their mother until they reach their own reproductive age—about two years old. Wolverines sport heavy, attractive fur that once made them a prime trapper's target in North America.
Their fur was used to line parkas, though this practice is far less common today and the animals are protected in many areas. All rights reserved. Bears will also attack wolverines only on rare occasions. Brown bears that attack wolverines will usually kill and eat the wolverine. Do you know which mammals are monogamous?
The answer might surprise you. Hunters hunt wolverines for their thick, dark fur. Laws are in place to curb wolverine hunting, but further acts need to be put in place for wolverine hunting to stop.
Wolverines are scavengers. Wolverines get most of their food source from dead carcasses known as carrion. Wolverines locate the corpse using their keen sense of smell.
Wolverine will feed on the carrion after the predator has finished or sometimes will take it by force. Wolverines are omnivores. They will eat both meat and plants due to food scarcity, especially during winter. Want to know more about wolverines.
Here are facts I have put together for you. Typically wolverines eat large game such as caribou, moose, and mountain goats.
They will also eat smaller animals such as ground squirrels and rodents. Wolverines prefer to eat meat, but they have adapted to eating vegetables due to scarcity in winter. Wolverines are excellent hunters, and they are well adapted to hunt. They use their sharp, strong claws with their powerful jaws. Wolverines can hunt whatever animals they come across, but they prefer animals of their size. The exception to this is if a large animal is stuck in the snow or sick.
Want to know what other animals are omnivores. Find out in an article I have written here. Wolverines do not hibernate during the winter. Wolverines have adapted for life in extreme conditions and use these so that they do not need to hibernate.
Wolverines will find shelter out of the cold and wind in late winter and early spring. Wolverines have thick, dark, oily fur, which is highly hydrophobic, making it resistant to frost and water. In a world bursting with news, nature is our niche — and we love it that way. You, our viewers, are passionate about these stories we tell. Take your passion further by supporting and driving more of the nature news you know and love. They may be tough and ferocious, but when it comes to survival in landscapes transformed by humans, wolverines are finding it hard to adapt.
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