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Wolverine
A wolverine is the largest animal in the weasel family. Its scientific name is Gulo gulo.
The wolverine eats mice, rats and other small mammals, birds and eggs. In winter, when snow covers the ground, it eats reindeer and other large prey.
The wolverine lives in remote reaches of the Northern boreal forests and subarctic and alpine tundra of the Northern hemisphere, with the greatest numbers in Alaska, Canada, the Nordic countries of Europe and throughout western Russia and Siberia. Their populations have experienced a steady decline since the 19th century in the face of trapping, range reduction and habitat fragmentation, such that they are essentially absent in the southern end of their European range and are quite rare in the continental United States.The wolverine lives primarily in isolated northern areas, for example the arctic and alpine regions of Alaska, northern Canada, Siberia and Scandinavia; they are also native to Russia, the Baltic countries, and Northern China and Mongolia. In 2008 and 2009, wolverines were sighted as far south as the Sierra Nevada, near Lake Tahoe, for the first time since 1922.[16][17] It is also found in low numbers in the Rocky Mountains and northern Cascades of the United States. However, most New World wolverines live in Canada.
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Armed with powerful jaws, sharp claws, and a thick hide, wolverines may defend kills against larger or more numerous predators.There is at least one published account of a 27-pound wolverine's attempt to steal a kill from a black bear (adult males weigh 400 to 500 pounds). Unfortunately for the mustelid, the bear won what was ultimately a fatal contest.[14] Wolverines have been known to harass and attempt to intimidate wolves and cougars.
