![]() Moose stuck in avalanche freed by 3 Alaska snowmobilers.Instead, they would be trained to track human scent, and allow search and rescue humans to do the rest of the digging. And in all these years, I've never been sent to the emergency room.īut even with careful training, a wolverine couldn't be trusted to dig someone out of the snow unattended. "It will bite me on the neck and drag me around, and do all that play behavior like it's killing its prey. "It will wrestle with me like it's wrestling with its own kind," Kroschel says. He says the secret to calming wolverines is introducing them to humans when they're first born, and getting them to "imprint on you." "And they stay gentle to you, as opposed to wolves, lynx or grizzly or any of the other fur-bearing animals of North America that I work with." Never sent to the emergency room And when they're bonded with you, they will follow you around in the mountains like a dog. "You can train them to a harness very easily, they love that. "They just really become a companion like no other wild animal that I've ever worked with," Kroschel said. Since then, wolverines have become Kroschel's passion, and he soon realized his uncanny knack for winning their trust.ĭespite their nasty reputation, he says wolverines are easily tamed. There was a time when trappers would catch them instead of shooting them, and there were a few that could be saved for educational purposes. "Al would receive wolverines from the north. Since Oeming had no affinity for wolverines, Kroschel was allowed to step in. The sanctuary, once located 35 kilometres east of Edmonton, in Sherwood Park, was founded by zoologist Al Oeming.Īt its peak, the game farm housed more than 3,000 animals from 166 species. He got his start in Alberta 36 years ago, working with wolverine kits at Polar Park. The largest member of the weasel family, with a stench that has earned them the name of skunk bear, wolverines are b oth scavenger and predator, and have been known to take down deer, lynx, even bears.Ī wildlife photographer in Alaska, Kroschel has spent decades training wolverines in captivity. ![]()
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