现实生活动物世界中的“金刚狼”

所谓的金刚狼“wolverine”这个词并非凭空生造，在大自然中还真有叫做wolverine的动物，它叫做狼獾，有狼一样的残忍，又有獾一样的体形。属于属于鼬鼠家族，别说跟狼没啥血缘关系，倒还跟《狮子王》里的猫釉丁满是近亲咧，可见狼獾其实长得相当可爱，但它的个性就完全不是那么回事儿（好吧这点也和电影版的很像）。Wolverine狼獾之所以会被演绎成彪悍的“金刚狼”，自然有其个中原因。

狼獾是鼬鼠家族中最大的动物，被认为是世界上最强壮的哺乳动物之一，通常体重重达35磅，有的雄兽体重可高达50磅，以棕色为主，远远望去，很像一头小小的棕熊。它们具有永不放弃的精神和无赖到底的作风，能粉碎大角鹿的大腿骨头的巨大颚肌肉。对它们这种山地动物来说没有什么比肌肉发达的腿来得更有用了，狼獾腿的粗壮程度在同等体形的动物中那可堪是绝无仅有的，甚至有人说它的力量可与黑熊匹敌。狼獾长着半月形可缩回的爪（找到金刚狼的根源了吧？），指甲半寸长且锐利耐用，它们用爪挖掘、攀登、捕获并且杀戮它们的猎物。

作为一种传奇生物，狼獾骇人的力量、无畏的勇气和不可测的精神力无一不是北界各地神话传说中的素材，人类对之抱以了复杂而又多样的情感——迷信，图腾崇拜，恐惧和憎恨。印第安的神话中把 wolverine狼獾说成是一个骗子般的英雄，并以它作为和精神世界的连结；又说在节日的篝火旁狼獾会化身作美丽姑娘或精健的小伙子来勾引部落中的年轻人。


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The wolverine (Gulo gulo, also occasionally called Glutton or Carcajou) is the largest land-dwelling species of the Mustelidae (weasel) family in the genus Gulo (Latin: "glutton"). It is a stocky and muscular carnivore, resembling a small bear more than other mustelids. The wolverine has a reputation for ferocity and strength out of proportion to its size, with the documented ability to kill prey many times it size.

The wolverine is distributed primarily in remote reaches of the Northern boreal forests and subarctic and alpine tundra of the Northern hemisphere, with the greatest numbers in Alaska, Canada, the Nordic countries of Europe and throughout western Russia and Siberia. Their populations have experienced a steady decline since the 19th century in the face of trapping, range reduction and habitat fragmentation, such that they are essentially absent in the southern end of their European range and are quite rare in the continental United States.

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