Toughest animal in the boreal? A wolverine—kihkwahahkew in Cree—sits tight in a spruce tree after being driven off a moose kill by wolves. A wolverine can hold its own against a single wolf, but when a pack surrounds it it’s time to leave. They are one of my favorite mustelids (weasels) and look like a cross between a badger and small bear. . I’ve been fortunate over the decade I’ve been working on the Hudson Coast to see nearly a dozen wolverine doing everything from feeding on kills to hunting