October 28th, 2014 at 10:49 PM ^
October 29th, 2014 at 7:29 AM ^
Just think of how much apologizing will be going on if we go with the Wolverine from Montana?
October 29th, 2014 at 7:50 AM ^
Yeah, but Honey Badger Wolverine don't give a shit.
There will be NO APOLOGIZING!
October 29th, 2014 at 8:28 AM ^
He's not a "Michigan Wolverine".
October 28th, 2014 at 10:50 PM ^
October 28th, 2014 at 11:00 PM ^
October 28th, 2014 at 11:48 PM ^
There are about 25,000 according to wiki. I never realized that it is not endangered.
October 29th, 2014 at 7:36 AM ^
You can buy Wolverine eggs on Amazon. So that probably helps maintain the population.
October 29th, 2014 at 8:51 AM ^
October 29th, 2014 at 10:49 PM ^
October 29th, 2014 at 12:28 PM ^
Part of the reason they appear endangered is because a male's territory can be something like a 200 mile radius. You're not going to have a dense population with that.
October 28th, 2014 at 10:55 PM ^
I still believe that we need to have one of these in a cage which we roll out and place near the opposing bench for each home game. Sometime in the first half, we send an assistant over to ostensibly check the locks, and he will assume a concerned, urgent face and tell the opposing staff, "Um. I'll be back in a moment...". They run away, never to return and the other team plays the game with one eye to the cage for the remainder.
October 28th, 2014 at 10:58 PM ^
it would be a PR disastor with the PITA types...but I LOVE IT
October 28th, 2014 at 11:36 PM ^
It can't be any worse than the "WOW" experience we are currently being presented with on the front page today
October 29th, 2014 at 12:11 AM ^
October 29th, 2014 at 1:12 AM ^
October 29th, 2014 at 7:45 AM ^
October 29th, 2014 at 7:52 AM ^
I love roast beef on a good PITA. I guess you could say I'm a PITA type. Why would I care about a Wolverine in a cage?
October 28th, 2014 at 11:10 PM ^
Funny you mention this.... because Michigan used to actually have 2 live wolverines at the Big House like Texas with Bevo, Colorado's Ralphie, Uga etc etc... SO YES Michigan did in fact have MASCOTS!
Meet Biff and Bennie, the Wolverines!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biff,_the_Michigan_Wolverine
Like all wild animals, turns out they're wild! They got too vicious to keep around students on campus lol.
October 28th, 2014 at 11:14 PM ^
I'd be all for a mascot if it could be a real live wolverine. They could make a huge cage on the top of the wall on the visitor side so he'd have room to run back and forth. Kids could stick their fingers in the cage for fun. Somebody needs to make this happen.
October 28th, 2014 at 11:38 PM ^
Agreed, If they did have a live wolverine living on campus and they brought it to the games i think that would be really awesome. Let him loose on sparty and brutus damn when can we get this done
October 29th, 2014 at 12:42 AM ^
Brandon, in a constant state of trying to appease the press/fans does this. I'd still fire him, though would appreciate the way he went out in the future.
October 29th, 2014 at 8:13 AM ^
I immediately thought of Red Lightning! Hire him!
October 29th, 2014 at 3:02 PM ^
ADC: LSAClassOf2000.
You win that promotion based on this idea alone.
October 28th, 2014 at 10:55 PM ^
Saw one this weekend at the Watertown, NY zoo. If you ever want to see one up close, go there. You can stand about two feet away from them if they come over to the fence at the edge of their (large) enclosure, which they often do. I'm always amazed that the zoo can get away with it. If you wanted, you could easily lean in and try to pet one.
October 29th, 2014 at 2:55 PM ^
If you wanted, you could easily lean in and try to pet one.
I wouldn't recommend that!
October 29th, 2014 at 4:26 PM ^
They also have one (or two?) at the Detroit Zoo. If the weather is right, he is normally pretty active.
October 28th, 2014 at 10:56 PM ^
Gorgeous picture!
October 28th, 2014 at 11:12 PM ^
That is one awesome animal, and this is an incredible photograph given their extreme rarity (only a few hundred in the contiguous U.S). It's total BS that the FWS recently withdrew their proposal to list the Wolverine as a threatened species.
October 28th, 2014 at 11:19 PM ^
Actually I've heard it argued that being on the threatened/endangered list can be a big threat to a species. If you're a developer and you find a species on your land that, if its presence were known, would prevent you from developing the land, there's a huge incentive for you to dispose of the offending critter quickly and quietly, whereas otherwise you might at least attempt to protect it - or even keep it around and market it as an attraction or added value.
October 28th, 2014 at 11:40 PM ^
Yeah, this is a very popular argument among developers and the construction lobby. It's known in the environmental world as "shoot, shovel, and shut up." However, there isn't a whole lot of evidence confirming it. The notion that someone would kill animals under the protection of federal law and save animals not under the protection of federal law is counterintuitive and has never been supported by any serious empirical research. If you're an a-hole developer, you're going to ignore the wildlife either way.
October 28th, 2014 at 11:43 PM ^
October 28th, 2014 at 11:15 PM ^
I like its ferocity, strength, and physicality. Some other Wolverines may lack that.
October 29th, 2014 at 10:11 PM ^
October 28th, 2014 at 11:29 PM ^
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ4tyowlVUM
October 29th, 2014 at 8:21 AM ^
October 28th, 2014 at 11:43 PM ^
The Lone Wolverine by Jeff Ford is a great book about the last spotted wolverine in Michigan.
October 29th, 2014 at 4:28 PM ^
The Wolverine Way is pretty good too.
October 28th, 2014 at 11:53 PM ^
Only ones around here are in zoos :(
October 29th, 2014 at 1:19 AM ^
We just need a better offensive line to do it.
October 29th, 2014 at 1:51 AM ^
October 29th, 2014 at 1:54 AM ^
Link to article?
Magpies for good luck also.
October 29th, 2014 at 8:30 AM ^
Where is the link?
October 29th, 2014 at 1:38 PM ^
I pulled it off the Bozeman Daily Chronicle FB page, but for some reason can't find it on the Montana FWP page, even though I follow it:
https://www.facebook.com/dailychronicle/photos/pb.178121195873.-2207520…
October 29th, 2014 at 8:59 AM ^
but The Wolverine Way, by Doug Chadwick is an awesome read. Baddest critters on the planet as far as I can tell. As for Wolverines in the continental US the number may be close to being right. Each individual requires so much space that the carrying capacity just isn't very high.... kinda like grizzlies. That said, IMO wild places should be protected with unbelievalbe fervor. The flora and fauna will figure itself out from there.
October 29th, 2014 at 8:56 AM ^
I just want to pinch his cheeks!
October 29th, 2014 at 3:07 PM ^
Good luck with that.
October 29th, 2014 at 9:02 AM ^
look like a wading fisherman laying down a huge and foolish hookset... guess I know where my mind is.
October 29th, 2014 at 9:43 AM ^
That's all I've got
October 29th, 2014 at 2:54 PM ^
protecting that elk from that wolverine.