During a visit to Yellowstone National Park (United States), Saturday March 5, a guide and a photographer had a pleasant surprise.

MacNeil Lyons and Carl Kemp were driving through the park when they spotted an animal crossing the road.

“For a second we both thought maybe it was a young black bear moving away from us,” the guide explains in 

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But the animal stopped to observe them.

Looking closely, the duo then realized their first diagnosis was wrong.

It was not a bear cub but a glutton.

“With no other vehicles around, we were able to spend three full minutes in the presence of this animal.

[…] He was curious for a moment.

Then he jumped twice on the adjacent snow-covered embankment and returned to the road to size us up, ”continues MacNeil Lyons.

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A discreet animal

This observation is all the more incredible as the wolverine is a discreet animal and therefore difficult to observe.

A rare meeting therefore for the guide and the photographer, who seized the opportunity to take a picture of it and even to film it.

According to the National Park Service, just seven wolverines were identified in an 8,900 square kilometer circle around the park between 2006 and 2009. They were two females and five males.

The last images of a wolverine date back to January 2021. The animal had been filmed by a camera trap running in the middle of the trees.

It had been over ten years since the species had been filmed in Yellowstone.

Also called wolverine, or wolverine in English, the wolverine is a scavenger that belongs to the weasel family.

It has a powerful jaw and sturdy legs, with long claws.

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