Buddy the Wolverine, Lost and Found

Now approaching a wolverine’s maximum life expectancy, this could be his last winter.

By Jeff Wheelwright
Oct 6, 2016 5:00 AMDec 19, 2019 5:48 PM
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Eight years ago, a young male wolverine from Idaho surprisingly showed up near Truckee in California’s Sierra Nevada range. Wolverines had been absent there for 80 years. Discover profiled the animal in March 2014, in the article “Where’s Buddy?”

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