Wolverine Sighting

Your Friend and Mine;
The Wolverine
The Wolverine is neither a wolf nor a tangerine.
(You might have guessed that last one, but where do you think the "er-ine" came from?)

Now pause a moment for a wolverine ditty:
"Wolverine, Tangerine",
sung to the tune of Donovan's
"Jennifer, Juniper", the hit from the 60's.
(and I think some people were there who CAN remember the 60's!
We weren't all stoned all the time, you know.
Some of us were never high, except on life!)

artist's rendering of a wolverine

The wolverine actually comes from the goldenrod areas of the world, as shown in the map below. (what kinda color is goldenrod, anyway? it's not gold. I guess it's the color of a flower; but it sure sounds like an allergenic flower to me!)

But wait!

If you've been paying attention to the news, you'll have heard about the wolverine sightings in Tahoe. As we speak, Tohoenese animal biologists are collecting DNA from fur caught on nails (NAILS! How cruel) wrapped around a tree near somewhere from whence someone has presumed to have spotted a wolverine. I guess this someone, cleverly thinking the wolverine might want to scratch (to scent mark his tree? or perhaps he was itchy!) Anyway, they got a semi-ok photo using a tricky movement triggered, snapping flash camera! So here's the photo of the wolverine (if it really proves to be a wolverine) in Tahoe.

photographer's sneaky snapshot of supposed wolverine

Wolverines spotted in other states more Northern Americanied are surprising wolverine scientists as as we ourselves are surprised to find a wolverine in our own end of the Westernley American area scratching on this terrible looking thing. (Cruel, cruel nails!) Innocent wolverines go in for a scratch, get stabbed by a nail, just for scientists to get some fur samples in order to extract some DNA in order to make sure you are really a wolverine and not a weasel, although you are in the weasel family. (so are ferrets I believe)

See below for a scary looking wolverine on the cover of some hatchet job of a pamphlet from days of yore, when fierce and false wolverine terror gripped the nation and Canada!




















Aren't you glad to know the real wolverines are heading south to scratch on nails (though cruel and unusual) to reclaim some territory stolen from them by generations of suburbanites?

Power to the people! Or in this case:
Power to the wolverines!