wolverine study in NW Ontario

[kickingfrog]

Matt Scrafford's job involves getting up close and personal with a notoriously elusive animal. 

He studies wolverines, and is currently working on a project that involves live-trapping, and tracking the animals near the town of Red Lake in northwestern Ontario.

It's not easy to do — to say wolverines keep to themselves would be an understatement — but that's what Scrafford loves about the job. 

 

Full story:

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/wolverine-tracking-red-lake-1.4973538

[irishfield]

Fishers in the yard are enough, but thanks!  

[DRIFTER_016]

I used to have a local wolverine here in my neighbourhood until some #@$ complained and they trapped and moved it.

Was cool to see and it wasn't bothering anyone.  ?

Here's a pic of one up on the ice road at one of the camps.

I'm much more worried when these guys are around.

[TJQ]

thats cool, ive always be fascinated by wolverines.

[OhioFisherman]

1 hour ago, irishfield said:

Fishers in the yard are enough, but thanks!  

I was surprised as heck when one of my daughters showed me a picture of one in her backyard at her former home in Rhode Island, it was a place I would never have thought would have them.

 

[OhioFisherman]

One of the first books I remember reading as a kid, a story about a wolverine, a good read!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3860913-carcajou-the-wolverine

[dave524]

9 hours ago, irishfield said:

Fishers in the yard are enough, but thanks!  

They keep the Red Squirrel population in check, now those little beggars are destructive.

[BassMan11]

Awesome pictures Dave. Cool animals. 

[kickingfrog]

On 1/15/2019 at 10:27 PM, irishfield said:

Fishers in the yard are enough, but thanks!  

Looking for some duck a l'orange no doubt.

[Moosebunk]

Yeah... they are "usually" solitary, but check this out!

https://twitter.com/amymacbiologist/status/999319052655955968?lang=en

[OhioFisherman]

That is incredible Moose, your take on it? a lack of other easily available food sources?

[Moosebunk]

1 hour ago, OhioFisherman said:

That is incredible Moose, your take on it? a lack of other easily available food sources?

This was food related. This isn't the original video but I did see it recently. Wolverines running out of containers that I think were just holding garbage.  Imagine if they hunted in packs?!?! lol.  We saw some on a trip to the Sutton River this summer.  Named a speckled trout pool after 'em.  Locals up here in Nunavut see them too... and I was admiring a traditional amounti which had a hood rimmed with wolverine.

[Moosebunk]

Great read Rob.  Interesting line of work to be able to study such an elusive and cool weasel like this.

[OhioFisherman]

27 minutes ago, Moosebunk said:

This was food related. This isn't the original video but I did see it recently. Wolverines running out of containers that I think were just holding garbage.  Imagine if they hunted in packs?!?! lol.  We saw some on a trip to the Sutton River this summer.  Named a speckled trout pool after 'em.  Locals up here in Nunavut see them too... and I was admiring a traditional amounti which had a hood rimmed with wolverine.

I saw it was in Russia, Siberia I am guessing? I imagine trash pickup is pretty scarce up there so the truck it out in containers? Food probably also gets pretty scarce? Nothing like that here, we get to see raccoons digging thru the trash cans.