The Wolverine range reaches from northern Europe and Siberia through northern North America. Wolverines live in forests, mountains, the plains areas and brush lands.
The Wolverine, a big weasel with a massive build, large head, comparatively small, rounded ears, a short tail, and has huge limbs. Their thick fur is long, normally a blackish brown with a light brown stripe along each side of their body from shoulder to bottom. The stripe comes together over the base of the tail. Wolverines have sharp senses of smell and hearing but somewhat inferior eyesight. One of the bigger existing fur bearing predacious mammals, Gulo gulo 's head and body length is 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 feet long and it tail's length is seven to 11 inches. The male Wolverine weighs between 15 to 70 ponds. Females are about 24 to 30 inches long and weigh between 12 and 50 pounds.
Wolverines are very powerful and belligerent for their size, and hearsay says they have chased bears, cougars, and even packs of wolves from their kills. This is an attractive animal, fast, quiet, lethal, and resolved to win in all situations and need our protection.
The Wolverine will eat just about anything it finds or kills from bird's eggs to adult deer. The Wolverine can bring down prey many times bigger than itself. Because of its large claws and padded feet the animal can chase down and kill prey in the deep snow. Some of the animals the Wolverines target for food are: reindeer, roe deer, wild sheep, and elk. Being able to run at speeds over thirty miles an hour it can be very quick, vicious and successful when attacking larger animals. Wolverines experience estrus only once each year or breeding season and gives birth once every two years. Between the months of May and August, both the male and female Wolverines meet to mate. Each pair stays together for a few days and both the males and females may mate several times with other Wolverines. Science suggests copulation induces ovulation. The seed is not implanted instantly. The female has a period of physiologically enforced dormancy period of activity for six months.
After the male seed meets the egg in the female, she is pregnant for four to seven weeks. The female then builds a den in which she gives birth and nurse. They build rugged beds of grass or leaves in small caverns or rock crevices. Also they will build their nest in other animals burrows, or under a fallen tree. The new born Wolverine arrives between the months of January through April. A new born brood is from one to six animals. Also some of the new born in a litter may have different fathers. These young normally nurse for 56 to 70 days and leave the mother's care in the autumn.
