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Look at the paws on this guy! Last summer, a visitor reported to our Butterfly Monitoring Crew Lead, Michelle Toshack, that they had seen a wolverine chasing a marmot while hiking just to the west of the Park boundary in the Skagit watershed. Michelle told our wildlife biologists, and Roger Christophersen set up a scent lure to attempt to attract the wolverine to a hair snare and motion camera. The remote camera captured these photos of a male wolverine and the snare caught a useful hair sample.
Keith Aubry, Wildlife Biologist with the US Forest Service had the hair sample analyzed and recently reported that the DNA analysis confirmed this report as the westernmost verifiable record of a wolverine in the last 15 years! In addition, the hair sample identified this wolverine as "Special K", a previously captured wild study animal. Special K was caught in a trap near Bridge Creek back in February of 2012, but would not go down during immobilization and had to be released without a radio-collar intended to track movements across its home range. Luckily, biologists had taken a hair sample that allowed this identification that gives researchers another example of how wide-ranging these animals are - the two sites are separated by more than 45 miles and a mountain range!
Skull of a wolverine (Gulo gulo).
Here I am holding the upper left canine next to the skull so that you can see how far up into the skull itself the tooth is rooted. The more stress a tooth must take, the deeper the roots go.
One of those optical illusions, eh? The paw print is actually an indentation. Keep looking hard - if it looks like an embossed footprint your eyes are deceiving you.
Elena modelling some chocolate cake. Please do not use, copy or replicate this image in any way without permission.
I blame Okkle - his Wolvie doddle made me do this today (whilst I was literally watching paint dry).
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The sign said that frost does not form on the outer fur of wolverines. I think that the sign was wrong.
Skull of a wolverine (Gulo gulo).
The other business end. These crests form the anchor points for the powerful muscles of jaw and neck, the muscles that drive the wolverine's powerful bite.
Note the very rough surface of the bones. This texture forms on bones that are under a great deal of stress. The rough bone provides more anchor points for the muscle to adhere.
The size of these crests, combined with the width of the cheekbones and how widely the cheekbones spread, are excellent indicators of bite strength.
1965 Wolverine driven by Mogens Christensen and Ole Vejlund leading the 1968 Chevron B8 driven by David Smithies and Chris Clarkson during Qualifying / Practice for the Masters Sports-Cars Race on Friday at the 2012 Spa Six Hours.
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This is my first attempt at a Wolverine portrait. It took far longer than I expected but that may be partly due to the amount of time I spent looking at topless photos of Hugh Jackman in the name of research! It's a hard life ;-)
The painting was created digitally using traditional painting techniques.
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