BY NAILA MOREIRA Daily Staff Reporter Published March 2, 2004
It’s big, it’s ferocious, it growls and it goes by the name
“wolverine.” More like this But unlike the Michigan hockey team,
the wolverine sighted in Huron County last Tuesday is a rare
visitor to the state — so rare it marks Michigan’s first
confirmed sighting in the wild of the University’s mascot in at
least the last 200 “We have pretty good records going back a
couple of hundred years and we have no confirmed records of
wolverines — this is really the first,” said University Museum
of Zoology curator Philip Myers. A group of coyote hunters
discovered the animal near the town of Ubly, located at the tip
of the Thumb. “They came across these unusual footprints,” said
state Department of Natural Resources biologist Arnie Karr, “and
put the dogs on to see what it was, and lo and behold, it turned
out to be a wolverine.” The hunters and their dogs cornered the
wolverine in a tree until Karr arrived to confirm the sighting.
Karr and the hunters took