WOLVERINE or GLUTTON 



Gulo luscus. 



With shaggy coat, big broad flat paws covered with thick 

 hair and a strong heavily built frame, the wolverine is well fitted 

 for his wandering life in a northern range, which, beginning at the 

 limit of trees, extends to the Great Salt Lake, although he is ex- 

 tremely rare south of northern New York. Bearing the unenviable 

 reputation of the worst thief in all the animal world, he is known 

 as "mountain devil" to the Indian and trapper, whose supplies, how- 

 ever well hidden, are often ferreted out by his most acute sense 

 of smell and whose traps he considers his own property, emptying 

 them of their contents at his pleasure and not infrequently lugging 

 off the trap as well as the bait and game. He is also called "carca- 

 jou." 



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