Tooth and Claw: Wolverines

Discovery

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Science

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Adam Hart investigates the largest terrestrial member of the weasel family – the wolverine. They’re far more than just a superhero played by Hugh Jackman! With a reputation for gluttony and ferocity, these solitary killers use snowstorms to hunt much larger prey. Found in the snowy tundra and boreal forests of the Northern Hemisphere, their future looks uncertain – they've come into conflict with Scandinavian farmers by hunting their reindeer and are threatened by climate change in North America and Mongolia. But have we misunderstood wolverines? And can we learn to co-exist with them?

Contributors:

Rebecca Watters is founder and director of the Mongolian Wolverine Project, as well as the executive director of the Wolverine Foundation, a non-profit that’s dedicated to advancing science-based conservation of wolverines.

Jenny Mattisson is a researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, who is involved in the monitoring of wolverines in Scandinavia. She has studied interactions between wolverines and Eurasian lynx, as well as their predation of reindeer.

Presenter: Professor Adam Hart Producer: Jonathan Blackwell Editor: Holly Squire Production Coordinator: Jonathan Harris Studio Manager: Donald MacDonald (Photo: Wolverine, Credit: Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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0:55.0	I'm Adam Hart and this is Tooth and Clore, the series where I explore our complex and challenging
1:00.6	relationships with Earth's greatest predators predators through the people who have spent
1:04.2	their lives studying, protecting and at times narrowly escaping them. This week's predator is the largest terrestrial member of the weasel family or mastellids.
1:19.0	Looking rather like a small bear with large flat feet, heavy fur and a long bushy tail.
1:24.0	This animal is found in the snowy tundra and boreal forests of the northern hemisphere.
1:28.0	They may take advantage of kills by wolves, bears and lynx,
1:32.0	but they can also use strong jaws to bring down their own prey,
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