Wolverines !!!!!

[Scout26]

Got this in my E-mail box today from the Center for Biological Diversity:

Wolverines -- fierce forest carnivores roughly the size of small bears -- rapidly ascend snow-covered mountains, travel many miles a day and are known to fight other predators over their prey. These critters are tough -- but sadly no match for climate change, which is shrinking the snow cover they need for survival.
 
Climate change, along with trapping and habitat loss, is forcing wolverines to the edge of extinction -- there are fewer than 300 left in the wild. But the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is currently only proposing to list wolverines as threatened -- allowing many of the threats to their survival to persist.

Fish and Wildlife needs to protect wolverines as endangered so they receive all the protections of the Endangered Species Act.

Who's going to fight the Cubans/Nicaraguans/Russians/Red Chinese/Norks if there aren't any Wolverines left?

Also the wikipedia article leaves out any mention of Red Dawn, highly disappointing.

[TechMan]

What about the Red Dawn remake?

[Harold Tuttle]

my pet rabbit is roughly the size of a small bear

[lupinus]

my pet rabbit is roughly the size of a small bear

But standing atop a mountain, raising your rifle high, and shouting "BUNNIEEEEEEEES!" just doesn't have the same swag.

Nor does the spray painted tags of "BUNNIES" at the scenes of your mischief have the same moxie.

[makattak]

Yeah... "Only 300 left in the wild!!11!1!" really interested me, because ANY animal with that few numbers would be on National Geographic or Discovery channel.

So, I went to almighty Wiki and found that the range is basically all of northern Canada, Alaska, and Siberia.

Hmmm... following the numbers up... Oh hey! There are less than 300 wolverines! (in Sweden) Actually, no, it's less than 200 wolverines! (In Norway or Finland).

No no! There are only 3 wolverines left! (In California).

Oh, but in Canada and Russia, where the VAST majority of their range is? I think it's less than 20,000!!! This is obviously a disaster of epic proportions. I mean, a predator species that requires a large range and does not share territory, MUST have once numbered in the 100,000s. Right?

Or, as I suspected, the "Center for Biological Diversity" was making crap up.

[Ben]

No no! There are only 3 wolverines left! (In California).

A couple of friends and I took a 10 day backpacking trip far into the Sierras the day after High School graduation in 1978. At one of our camps at 11K feet near Volcanic Lakes, we all three saw in the distance what we thought had to be a wolverine. When we got back we hit the library, and photos in the books we looked at plus descriptions of movement all strongly pointed to it, but everyone thought we were crazy. I would have loved to have had one of the superzoom compact cameras that we have now, then. I would have been able to get a good picture of it.

[Tallpine]

Unicorns!!!! 

 

[Harold Tuttle]

[freakazoid]

That picture is full of win.

[vaskidmark]

If wolverines are going to drop off the face of Muvver Erf because of globular wormering, their former habitat will resemble the ideal conditions for Honey Badgers!  Those suckers will swim entire oceans to get new ranges to prowl.

Problem solved.

stay safe.

[vaskidmark]

Harold -

Why does that dragon have a wristwatch around its neck?

stay safe.

[makattak]

Harold -

Why does that dragon have a wristwatch around its neck?

stay safe.

I was wondering why the vikings look like ancient Chinese.

[Harold Tuttle]

I was wondering why the vikings look like ancient Chinese.

[grampster]

Michigan being the Wolverine State, we has at least one with fur traipsing around in the Thumb area and we have another in Ann Arbor, having a coat of maize and Blue but it chokes and dies around New Year's Day.

[makattak]

Ah, the Centari. That explains exerything. Thanks.

[Ben]

Ah, the Centari. That explains exerything. Thanks.

 

[just Warren]

What does Washington Crossing the Delaware have to do with the X-Men?

[freakazoid]

What does Washington Crossing the Delaware have to do with the X-Men?

I could find a Master Chief Crossing the Delaware, an Avengers Crossing the Delaware, and a Klingon's crossing the Delaware, but no X-Men Crossing the Delaware.

[White Horseradish]

But standing atop a mountain, raising your rifle high, and shouting "BUNNIEEEEEEEES!" just doesn't have the same swag.

Nor does the spray painted tags of "BUNNIES" at the scenes of your mischief have the same moxie.

Depends on the bunnies.

[lee n. field]

But standing atop a mountain, raising your rifle high, and shouting "BUNNIEEEEEEEES!" just doesn't have the same swag.

Nor does the spray painted tags of "BUNNIES" at the scenes of your mischief have the same moxie.

The Fuzzy Bunny Militia

[AZRedhawk44]

Ah, the Centari. That explains exerything. Thanks.

Galoka didn't think the Ulus were too ugly to save.

[Stand_watie]

Michigan being the Wolverine State, we has at least one with fur traipsing around in the Thumb area ...

As I recall from the news report several years ago they were saying it was the first confirmed sighting in the area since the early 1800's or some such. Would seem to me a positive indicator for Wolverine habitat.

[Harold Tuttle]