Wolverines are tough little buggers. They’ll take on grizzlies and mountain lions to defend their carcasses! They also take on Buckeyes... ;)
That was frikking wild! Man, talk about two creatures just going at it, full tilt, non-stop.
I used to wrestle, and I still think that it was most difficult sport there was if you were matched evenly against an opponent. Just the constant tension trying to find and exploit the smallest opening or weakness by your opponent as they did the same to you. It was bloody damned exhausting.
I read a book recently called “Lost in My Own Backyard: A Walk in Yellowstone National Park”.
The author described how the Coyote population just went haywire as the wolves became nearly extinct (or did in that area before they were reintroduced)
When the wolves came back, they completely decimated the Coyote population. The biggest coyotes who had been (literally in this case) the top dog alpha male kind of animals, tried to stand up to the wolves and were destroyed.
He described a scene one day as he walked down a trail, where an entire pack of coyotes came running out of the woods that ran along the top of a ridge that came down at about 70 degrees to his trail ahead of him.
The coyotes flew out of the woods and literally tumbled and somersaulted down this huge incline in total panic.
At the top, a large gray wolf appeared out of the woods and calmly walked slowly over to the edge and looked over at the tumbling coyotes.
Excellent video - glad to see that the wolf came away with so little battle damage. Obviously my Siberians are not half as rough as the real deal, but I have seen them nail pretty good sized woodchucks, 18 pounds or so, with just a little flick of the head. So they have pretty good moves.
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