Animals you may not have known.

As I said in my previous post, there are millions of animals and it is impossible to know all of them. Here is  a short  list that I put together of animals that  are not commonly known.After reading this I hope you would be aware of   them.

  1. THE WOLVERINE.

I know many persons may be thinking, that I  am talking about "Wolverine"the  XMEN character(who by the way, is awesome!), but actually I am not talking about that "Wolverine".  The wolverine that I am talking about is an actual animal, which behaves, much like the XMEN character.   Everything you need to know about the wolverine  would be provided for you below.

You dont want to get them ANGRY!

The wolverine is a powerful animal that resembles a small bear but is actually the largest member of the weasel family.

These tough animals are solitary, and they need a lot of room to roam. Individual wolverines may travel 15 miles (24 kilometers) in a day in search of food. Because of these habitat requirements, wolverines frequent remote boreal forests, taiga, and tundra in the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and North America.

Wolverines eat a bit of vegetarian fare, like plants and berries, in the summer season, but this does not make up a major part of their diet—they are tenacious predators with a taste for meat. Wolverines easily dispatch smaller prey, such as rabbits and rodents, but may even attack animals many times their size, such as caribou, if the prey appears to be weak or injured. These opportunistic eaters also feed on carrion—the corpses of larger mammals, such as elk, deer, and caribou. Such finds sustain them in winter when other prey may be thinner on the ground, though they have also been known to dig into burrows and eat hibernating mammals.

Males scent-mark their territories, but they share them with several females and are believed to be polygamous. Females den in the snow or under similar cover to give birth to two or three young each late winter or early spring. Kits sometimes live with their mother until they reach their own reproductive age—about two years old.

Wolverines sport heavy, attractive fur that once made them a prime trapper's target in North America. Their fur was used to line parkas, though this practice is far less common today and the animals are protected in many areas.