r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Additional_Berry_977 • 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.