Wolverine Biology Project
Published on Nov 29, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
The Kingdom Phylum
The Wolverine shares the same Kingdom Phylum as almost all other animals. Anamalia Chordata.
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THE CLASS
The Wolverine is classified as Mammalia making it an endothermic amniote, distinguished from reptiles or amphibians, and has a impregnable backbone, which makes it a mammal.
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THE ORDER
The Wolverine is in a diverse order that refers to any meat eating organism.
The Carnivora order is the most diverse in size of any other mammalian order.
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FAMILY/ SUB FAMILY
The Wolverine is from a distinct carnivorous family of mammals, that include minks, ferrets, badgers, and martens called Mustelidae. This family is the largest family in the order of Carnivora.
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PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
The wolverine is a stocky and muscular animal. With short legs, a broad and round head, small eyes, and short round ears, it resembles a bear more than its family of Mustelids.
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DISTRIBUTION
Wolverines live primarily in isolated alphine regions of of north Canada, Alaska, Siberia, and Scandinavia.
They are usually isolated animals excluding breeding periods.
DIET
Wolverines easily dispatch smaller prey, such as rabbits and rodents, but may even attack animals many times their size, such as caribou, if the prey appears to be weak or injured. These opportunistic eaters also feed on carrion—the corpses of larger mammals, such as elk, deer, and caribou.
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FUN FACTS
Wolverine's have become a proposed threat.
When a wolverine takes a step, its paw spreads to almost twice its original size as it presses against the ground. This makes it easier for wolverines to walk on snow. It's like built-in snowshoes.
Other members of the weasel family include skunks, sea otters, badgers and ferrets.
The wolverine's scientific name, Gulo gulo, comes from the Latin word gulo, which means "glutton."
M56 is a wolverine that was fitted with a tracking device near Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. During just two months, the wolverine walked more than 500 miles.
Wolverines are also called skunk bear, quickhatch (of Native American origin), carcajou (French for wolverine), glutton and stink-bear.
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