Ant Lab | Eric Pianka reads James Dickey's "For the Last Wolverine" @AntLab | Uploaded June 2015 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
"Extinction is forever. Once something is gone, you can't get it back."
-Eric R. Pianka, University of Texas at Austin's Denton A. Cooley Centennial Professor of Zoology
This is part 2 of episode 11 of the Age of Discovery podcast
Wolverines are the largest member of the carnivorous mammalian family Mustelidae, which includes weasels, mink, and otters. The Latin scientific name Gulo translates into glutton. Humans have hunted wolverines to extinction in many parts of their geographic range.
VIDEO CREDITS:
Concept: Eric R. Pianka http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~varanus/eric.html
Video & Production: Adrian A. Smith twitter.com/smadriant
Music (used with permission from the artist):
"Loco" - Zack Shaffer
Photographs from Krott, Peter. 1959. Demon of the North. Translated from the German by Edward Fitzgerald. First American Edition. New York, Knopf.
"Extinction is forever. Once something is gone, you can't get it back."
-Eric R. Pianka, University of Texas at Austin's Denton A. Cooley Centennial Professor of Zoology
This is part 2 of episode 11 of the Age of Discovery podcast
Wolverines are the largest member of the carnivorous mammalian family Mustelidae, which includes weasels, mink, and otters. The Latin scientific name Gulo translates into glutton. Humans have hunted wolverines to extinction in many parts of their geographic range.
VIDEO CREDITS:
Concept: Eric R. Pianka http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~varanus/eric.html
Video & Production: Adrian A. Smith twitter.com/smadriant
Music (used with permission from the artist):
"Loco" - Zack Shaffer
Photographs from Krott, Peter. 1959. Demon of the North. Translated from the German by Edward Fitzgerald. First American Edition. New York, Knopf.
