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killed by accident. It has great strength, and annoys the natives by destroying their 
hoards of provisions and demolishing their marten traps. It is so suspicious that 1t 
will rarely enter a trap itself, but, beginning behind, scatters the logs of which it is 
built, and then carries off the bait. It feeds also on meadow-mice, marmots, and 
other rodentia, and occasionally on other disabled quadrupeds of a larger size. I have 
seen one chasing an American hare, which was at the same time harrassed by a snowy 
owl. It resembles the bear in its gait and is much abroad in the winter, and the 
track of its journey in a single night may be traced for miles.” 
Mr. Graham observes that “The wolverenes are extremely mischievous, and do more 
damage to the small fur trade than all the other rapacious animals conjoitly. They 
will follow the marten-hunter’s path round a line of traps extending forty, fifty, or 
sixty miles, and render the whole unserviceable, merely to come to the baits, which 
are generally the head of a partridge or a bit of dred venison. They are not fond 
of the martens themselves, but never fail of tearing them in pieces, or of burying 
them in the snow by the side of the path, at a considerable distance from the trap. 
So pertinacious, indeed, are these animals, in quest of slaughtered carcases, that they 
have been known to gnaw through a thick log of wood, and to dig a hole several 
feet deep in frozen ground, in order to gain access to the body of a deer concealed 
by hunters. Another very curious propensity of the glutton is its habit of stealing 
and carrying away to some distance articles which can be of no possible use to it, 
and an instance is recorded where these animals removed and concealed the whole 
paraphernalia of an unoccupied hunter’s lodge, including such articles as guns, axes, 
knives, cooking-vessels, and blankets.” 
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Photograph by W. P. Dando, £.Z.8S., Regents Park. 
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