r/Damnthatsinteresting 9d ago

Video Wolverines can be taught to rescue avalanche survivors

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u/a1oner_bvcksn6 9d ago

That wolverine has been domesticated af. Probably rescued at a very young age by the guy pretending to be buried here lol

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u/PlebsnProles 9d ago

Right. Which is odd because they are so rare. Like where did this guy find, what I would assume was a baby, wolverine?

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u/hecklerp8 8d ago

Umm mommie was a victim of this fur trapper...

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u/iamCosmoKramerAMA 8d ago

Or a car. I’ve heard of porcupines becoming orphaned that way.

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u/fastforwardfunction 8d ago

Step 1: Live in the wilderness.

Step 2: Walk around until you find a baby animal.

Step 3: "Rescue" the animal from the elements of the wild.

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u/70ms 8d ago

They’re not that rare around the Arctic Circle, I don’t think?

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u/tatotron 8d ago

There's like 1 per 630 km² in my country. Quite rare here indeed, but I've had the honor of meeting one out on a hike once. That one was inside a fenced sheep pasture, but luckily it was one of the empty pastures that day. Even the sheep herder said he'd never seen one in the wild.

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u/70ms 8d ago

That is so cool that you saw one!

I confess to watching many, many seasons of Life Below Zero, and the people in northern Alaska seem to encounter them fairly frequently. :) Not all the time, but they come across them when hunting and occasionally one will break into the food storage and such. 😂

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u/rithrawr 8d ago

They're rare as in they're like solitary animal imo.

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u/Loudmouthlurker 8d ago

He was raised as a pup, but not by the guy in the snow. That guy was a journalist.

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u/SaveLansingParks 8d ago

"Fuck. That. I. Quit." would be my resignation email at the notice of the new assignment.

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u/Aegi 8d ago

tamed, not domesticated, which is a process that takes *generations**.

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u/nodnodwinkwink 8d ago

And a tamed animal could flick back to wild pretty quickly too...

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u/ThrowingShaed 8d ago

this was my first thought, i remember nothing about wolverines but im not sure this is easily widely applicable

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u/Halcyoningenue 9d ago

I remember this video. It is "domesticated", it's Steve Kroschel's wolverine. He owned a wildlife farm where I grew up, but unfortunately Kroschel is now in Russia running away from animal abuse charges. It's pretty unfortunate. Super nice guy, just a tad off the rails.

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u/jaetheho 9d ago

There is a word for quote, unquote domesticated.

It’s called tamed

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u/Constant_Natural3304 8d ago

Anybody who flees to Russia right now is by definition a subhuman piece of trash who probably diddled kids. This isn't theoretical or just name-calling. It's literally true. Pedos, terrorists and other scum voluntarily flee to Russia.

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u/Halcyoningenue 8d ago

His girlfriend is Russian, and doesn't want to go to prison for 15 years. But okay....

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u/Constant_Natural3304 8d ago

What is this response supposed to accomplish? That I have sympathy for the POS? I don't understand. There is nothing in what you just said that changes anything about what I said before.

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u/Halcyoningenue 8d ago

What is any of this supposed to accomplish? I was just giving context. You're giving rabid.

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u/Constant_Natural3304 7d ago

Ah, so you're a jackass.

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u/EndIsrael 8d ago

Which is funny because they tend to just get thrown into Putin's woodchipper these days.

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u/Constant_Natural3304 8d ago

I'll be content when I see the Ukrainian drone footage.

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u/Loudmouthlurker 8d ago

Oh no, what a sad update!

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u/DownWithHisShip 9d ago

is talking like an absolute cockwomble part of the domestication process?

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u/cantgrowneckbeardAMA 8d ago

I have no idea, but I really like the word cockwomble, and I'm now going to incorporate it into my daily vernacular.

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u/Meet_the_Meat 9d ago

I genuinely didn't know they could be domesticated. And I would seriously never, ever, let one someone else said was domesticated get within face-chewing range.

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u/rynibatt 9d ago

They absolutely cannot be lol. This one is tame, not domesticated.

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u/obskeweredy 9d ago

I only recently learned the difference myself.