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Originally Posted by Jetée
The character Wolverine may hail from Canadia, but to me, I usually associate wild wolverines with either Siberia or Michigan (even though I do know a fair to great amount of the population resides in the Canadian wild). |
I have a brother in the military. He told me a story about when he and a few guys went on an infantry training mission in the Yukon wilderness several years back.
One day their doctor was next to a river, a bit of a way off from the rest of the guys. He took off his glasses and was cleaning them. As he looked around while doing this, he noticed an animal about 20 feet upstream from him, drinking. He squinted as he finished wiping his glasses, and he wondered what it was. A beaver or something?
When he placed his glasses on once again, he realized with certain dread that it was a wolverine.
Now, I don't know how much you know about wolverines, but from what I've heard, anyone with personal experience with them will tell you that one of the last things you want 20 feet away from you in the Yukon wild is a wolverine.
Luckily, this guy went relatively unnoticed. Apparently, as he backed slowly away, the wolverine looked up at him once and continued to drink.
He didn't stick around long enough to find out what it might do next.
The thing to realize about wolverines is that they're known to take on virtually anything when they're pressed hard enough, no matter the size. Nasty buggers.
Ah, yes, the Canadian wild....