Wandering wolverine surprises biologists

The Idaho Mountain Express reports:

The undulating high-desert steppe that stretches on for miles north of Idaho Falls isn't typical wolverine habitat. Rather, it's where you'd expect to see pronghorn antelope speeding off into the distance. But that apparently didn't matter to a young male wolverine that recently found itself on the wrong side of a bobcat trap set by a trapper from the nearby town of Menan. When the trapper arrived at the trap set among tall sagebrush he found the animal waiting unharmed. Contacted by the trapper, a wildlife biologist with the Caribou-Targhee National Forest was able to sedate and remove the wolverine. After a thorough checkup, the vets implanted an internal radio transmitter in the wolverine to allow its movements to be tracked. According to Fish and Game, internal transmitters have proven successful in the past...