Salon.com > Kim Tingley http://www.salon.com Sat, 25 May 2013 01:08:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Save the wolverines! http://www.salon.com/2013/02/17/save_the_wolverines_partner/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/17/save_the_wolverines_partner/#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13202915 OnEarth When 18th century zoologists gave the largest land-dwelling member of the weasel family the scientific name Gulo gulo -- which translates, not so roughly, to gluttonous glutton -- they were foreshadowing what would be mankind’s rather one-dimensional view of the creature we now know as the wolverine. The black-and-white, 30-pound, bushy-tailed scavenger has come to loom as a voracious, flesh-ripping hellion in our popular imagination -- largely, it seems, because we don’t know much about it.

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