OT: Wolverines, the Future of Search and Rescue
Experts are training these vicious, wild animals to rescue avalance victims... without mauling them to death.
“They only think it’s impossible because of the reputation wolverines have,” he says. In the future, it seems, the most difficult part of his plan may not be training the wolverines, but instead convincing humans to reevaluate Alaska’s cuddliest “killing machine.”
Wolverines: The Future of Search and Rescue
February 10th, 2017 at 10:57 PM ^
This article is from April of 2016 and the info has been posted here a half dozen times. Still pretty cool though. Wolverines are BA. Obligatory video:
February 10th, 2017 at 11:29 PM ^
That dude is confusing "Jasper wanted to save me" with "Jasper wanted to eat me."
February 11th, 2017 at 12:06 AM ^
February 11th, 2017 at 11:19 AM ^
there goes our intimidation factor, we might as well start calling ourselves the Michigan White tailed deer...
February 11th, 2017 at 4:24 PM ^
February 12th, 2017 at 12:07 AM ^
would you believe them?
February 11th, 2017 at 12:10 AM ^
I love that this comes up so often. Any animal story that doesnt end in their or a humans life ending is always good in my book.
February 11th, 2017 at 1:46 AM ^
One time I saw a wolverine in the mountains. Neither of us died. The end. You're welcome.
February 11th, 2017 at 7:16 AM ^
before, but I must say the last time one was viewed near Muskegon, roughly 20 years ago, closer to Whitehall, one of the most impressive abilities of an animal that could - and thiis one did - close to 30 lbs was the uncanny ability to sprint across the snow and leave footprints on the top of the snow no deeper than probably 1/16th on an inch. Really don't know the term for an animal, including us, that can run at full speed barelly pushing off the grounded footb. Picking em up and laying down seems to fall short. But I must say I was very impressed.
February 11th, 2017 at 9:43 AM ^
Denard
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February 11th, 2017 at 8:07 AM ^
To my knowledge, only Publishers' Clearinghouse was successfully able to mail someone to death, and that was back in the pre-Internet days and the victim may have contributed to the problem by ordering every magazine published by Conde Nast.
February 11th, 2017 at 8:49 AM ^
February 11th, 2017 at 8:16 AM ^
thanks for posting. Quite amazing.
This may not be proven yet, but wolverines will search out Michigan avalanche victims first and save them. Spartan and Buckeye victims are mauled and devoured.
February 11th, 2017 at 9:57 AM ^
Is it because one smells like fish, and the other like feet?
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February 11th, 2017 at 11:08 AM ^
Horse chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Wolverines devouring them eleven at a time.
February 11th, 2017 at 11:20 AM ^
that at the end, it all went terribly wrong, blood and guts everywhere, because the man being saved was wearing a spartan hat or something like that.
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February 11th, 2017 at 8:03 PM ^
Wolverines pound for pound are among the most vicious and nasty creatures on the face of the earth. Long ago wild kingdom, or a simiar show, had footage of a woverine who catches a salmon in a stream fishing off a fallen log. The wolverine catches this salmon and a black bear decides that it wants the wolverine's dinner. The bear gets about half way on to the log growling and bristling at the wolverine, an animal that it out weighs by at least 350 lbs. The wolverine steps across its kill, gets nose to nose with the bear and, over the course of about 90 seconds, backs the bear off the log and then goes back to eat its dinner.
I understand that, given enough time and effort, man can train pretty much any animal to fulfill pretty much any function for which an animal can be trained. But given the nature of a wolverine, maybe our efforts to train rescue animals would be better directed to other than wolverines.
Just sayin