The wolverine is found primarily in remote reaches of the Northern boreal forest, also along with the greatest numbers in Northern Canada, the U.S. state of Alaska, the mainland Nordic countries of Europe, and throughout western Russia and Siberia.
The wolverine is classified into the Kingdom Animalia, the Class Mammalia, and the Family Mustelidae.
Along with the wolverine being a mammal its phylum is chordate.
The species/genus is a gulo,gulo(member of the weasel family).
The genus Plesiogulo originated in Asia and migrated to North America between 7.0 and 6.5 million years ago, where two species have been identified.
The wolverine usually weighs between 17 and 40 pounds, stands up to 1.5 feet tall.
The wolverine is found primarily in remote reaches of the Northern boreal forests and subarctic and alpine tundra of the Northern Hemisphere/continent.
Currently there are two subspecies the Old World form, gulo gulo, and the New World form.
The wolverine is the only living member of the genus Gulo, but several extinct members are known from the fossil record dating as far back as five million years ago.
The wolverine, a relative of the mink and weasel, is the largest terrestrial member of the family Mustelidae.
The wolverine is most closely related to the tayra and martens, all of which shared a Eurasian ancestor.
The wolverine is an elongated animal that is low to the ground. With strong limbs, broad and rounded heads, small eyes and short rounded ears, very big k9 teeth fur is brown.
The males are often 10–15% larger than the females in linear measurements and can be 30–40% greater in weight.
At the Size of a medium dog, the wolverine lives for 5-13
fun fact- If a wolverine were to fight a wolf, the wolverine would win due to pure stamina and strenghth.
It is currently not invasive.
The dominant plants in the boreal forest are cold-tolerant and fire-adapted conifer trees (pines, spruces, larches, fir), deciduous trees (maples, aspen, poplar), tall shrubs (mountain ash, pin cherry, alder, hazel), dwarf shrubs.
Boreal Forest consists of the average temperatures generally staying around -20° C (-4° F). Summers are short and stay at about 50° F, but can get as high as 80° F in some areas.
There is plenty of terrain, Lichens and mosses often dominate the ground layer. The structure of Boreal Forest & Woodland varies from closed forest to lichen woodland and forest-tundra.
The boreal forest shelters more than 85 species of mammals, including some of the largest and fer wood bison, elk, moose, woodland, caribou, grizzly.
It rains about 15-20 inches there isnt of perception in boreal forest.
The wolverine is a scavenger of the boreal forests, but it also hunts small and medium-sized prey, including reindeer and forest reindeer. (Small mammals, hares, foxes, birds and frogs as well as berries) are also part of its diet.
Individual wolverines have been known to travel up to 30 miles in a single day in search of food. Wolverines typically eat between 2 and 4 pounds of food per day.
There are no special foods for the wolverine.
Wolverines are solo creatures, and need great swaths of territory to roam.
Males mark their territory with their scent and only share their turf with females.
There are not any maing ritulas done by the males or females.
Male wolverines will not overlap with other male wolverines often, and typically does not have a lot of interaction with others besides females during mating.
The wolverine exhibits a polygamous mating system where one male usually mates with several females.
Wolverines have an extended mating period and are believed to mate from May to August. Most matings probably occur in June-July.
They average 2-3 kits.
Wolverine embryos may lie dormant for up to six months. Once the embryos start to develop, gestation can take 30-50 days. The female builds a den in the snow, in a thicket or in a rock crevice. She gives birth to 1-6 babies which may all have different fathers. The babies nurse for 8-10 weeks and will stay with their mother for up to two years.
Males appear to reach sexual maturity at about 2 years of age.
Female wolverines attain sexual maturity at about 15 months.
Both male and female wolverines become sexually mature in their second year but < 10% of the 2-year-old females produce litters.
Wolverines face three main death risks are human-caused, starvation and predation.
Wolverines typically dont have any sexual competion they might kill other wolverines.
The only disease to effect a wolverine are rabies which are commonly unheard of.
Human disturbances and trapping are also negatively affecting wolverines.
Wolverines tend to compete over mating, food, and resources.
The wolverine is listed by the IUCN as threatened, because of its small distribution.
The groups estimate there are around 300 wolverines left, sparsely scattered across the Mountain West, including Idaho, Washington and Oregon.
Threats to wolverines include habitat loss and fragmentation, climate change and some hunting.
The wolverine is proposed for listing under the Endangered Species Act as threatened.
I believe in the future the wolverines will become extint if we humans dont do anything about it.
Humans have been interacting with wolverines since june 14, 1805.
People are manually making more wolverines to increase the population.