🦡 Wolverine

The largest land weasel, built for deep snow and long solo journeys.

4–7 in including claws. Five toes with heavy claw marks. Very large for the animal's weight — snowshoe feet. Loping trail across open snowfields. Small inner toe often faint.

Alpine tundra, boreal forest, deep snowpack. Alaska, Canada, northern Rockies and Cascades.

Any hour

Carrion, small mammals, ground-nesting birds

A single wolverine's home range can top 500 square miles.