Awesome wolverine photo from Montana

Submitted by SaigonBlue on

A Montana wolverine feasting on an elk carcass. Photo shot by a Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks trail cam.

These amazing animals really need to be protected!

 

LSAClassOf2000

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.

SECcashnassadvantage

October 29th, 2014 at 1:12 AM ^

People Eating Tasty Animals. My favorite is Pamela Anderson flying all over to fight this on private jets, choppers, limousines, yacht, and with a gigantic home. She has killed more animals with her lifestyle than a group of hunters.

BornSinner

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. 

TIMMMAAY

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. 

MichiganTeacher

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.

Baloo

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.

MichiganTeacher

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.

Baloo

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.

jmdblue

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.