[NatureNS] Wolverines in NS?

Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:21:08 -0300
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Could it be a ground hog?  I had someone insist they saw a badger in Hantsport, it was a ground hog!

Marian Fulton 
Hantsport

---- AngelaJoudrey <aljoudrey@eastlink.ca> wrote: 
> Thank you Chris, Randy, DB (  Derek I think? ) for your replies.
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> I was with  my friend at the time your replies were coming in and she checked out the pics comparing the wolverine and the skunk.  I forwarded the messages to her as well.
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> She's going to keep her eyes open and try to see 'it' long enough to get some more ideas of size, features etc..
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> Thanks again for your help!
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> Angela and her friend Kim.
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> On 07/18/11, Randy Lauff  <randy.lauff@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't think wolverines were ever part of our fauna here. Fisher are much more secretive to be spotted "numerous times." Not knowing the extent of knowledge of your friend doesn't help...but there are a number of possibilities that come to mind if she is a a novice...but readily dismissed if she isn't. Ground Hog? Young bear? Even, gulp, a huge skunk...check out the pelage colourations of the two:
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> > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Wolverine_on_rock.jpg
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Striped_Skunk_(Mephitis_mephitis)_DSC_0030.jpg
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> > I do not mean to sound demeaning by suggesting these common animals, but it's hard to imagine what else it could be. However, if we had a peacock escapee...maybe there really is a wolverine out there? Anyone missing any pets?  :)
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> > Randy
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> > RF Lauff
> > Way in the boonies of
> > Antigonish County, NS.
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> > On 18 July 2011 14:16, AngelaJoudrey <aljoudrey@eastlink.ca> wrote:
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> > > Hi there.
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> > > A girlfriend of mine is fairly sure that she has seen numerous times  a wolverine in her yard. She called DNR and they "pushed" her towards a fisher, however she is not happy with that comparision.
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> > > Does any one have any experience or sightings or stories re: wolverines in NS?
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> > > Thanks
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> > > Angela
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> "The significant problems of our time cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them."
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> "When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
> John Muir
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