Wolverine+By+Peyton

=The Wolverine=

By Peyton

The Animal I am researching is called a wolverine (p.s. a wolverine is NOT from the X-men). It is connected to a book I read called Julie of the Wolves. The wolverine lives in the Arctic Circle mainly in Alaska and Russia. Its habitat is very stark and snowy, and the permafrost can be up to 8 inches thick. This animal eats smaller animals, and it is not afraid of animals 3 times larger than itself. The wolverine gets its food from carrion and from killing caribou calves or other small to medium-size animals. To get water, a wolverine will melt snow in its mouth. For shelter, a wolverine will dig a burrow in the snow. To get air, a wolverine will breathe through its lungs (duh!). Some of the adaptations a wolverine has to help it survive is long, water-resistant fur (p.s. wolverine fur is the warmest fur in the world). It also has strong jaw muscles for eating frozen meat. I got this info from buzzle.com and itech.pjc.edu.



http://www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/animals/images/wolve1.jpg This is a map of the arctic circle where the wolverine mostly lives. http://www.bugbog.com/images/maps/arctic-circle_map.jpg