I’m gonna get some pretty excited that’s
a nice little turd going up we’ve got 27
samples so far which is far exceeded
anybody’s expectations and we are here
in Mongolia in the northernmost part of
the country and place called the dark
hog valley and we’re here to learn about
Wolverines to gather scat and DNA
evidence so we can learn about their
similarities to North American
populations so that we can learn about
their habits and really gain any
information we can from this incredible
species that we just don’t know anything
about this is a scat sample of a
Wolverine and it’s a great scat tons of
hair and they’re in bone but the really
confounding thing is this probably can’t
see it this red blob in here that was
attached to the scat and we’re just left
to speculate on what that is we’ve got
Jason with us who is a world-renowned
Wolverine ecologist Rebecca who is our
Mongolia Wolverine expert we’ve got
Forrest with us who is an adventurer
extraordinaire and we’ve got Jim with us
who’s capturing the images for this trip
in a great way there’s Wolverines here
Wolverine where there’s Wolverine
mongolia there’s Wolverine it won’t go
in you know I think the hard part is the
bit it’s a climate we haven’t been into
before I think it’s gonna be cold it
could be real cold even I gotta call
snot metronome it helps me keep time
when I’m breaking trail so he’s just
come over pretty windy pass pretty damn
cold
I’d guess with the windchill it was
about negative oh I don’t know maybe
about zero I got a couple miles before
we get out of this wind and cold the
groups ahead of me I can barely see them
through the white I can’t really tell
where the sky in the ground meet ya
pretty wild
we weren’t what a mile up the valley
when this train of horses appears and
it’s the very first animals from this
migration of people moving into Dar
Howard Valley for the summertime since
yesterday afternoon we’ve seen what
probably passed a thousand stock animals
so they’ve passed us it’s more accurate
she’s been doing like the salmon
upstream thing following this trail as
camels oxen sheep goats people riding
horses carrying calves in their lap it’s
a trip I’ve never seen animals carry
animals we’ve gone oh somewhere over 300
miles collected 29 Wolverine samples
seen 25 or so tracks we’ve done what
everybody is feeling like was an amazing
job of documenting the natural history
of this range and we get to finish on
holy cow what a spectacular day thanks
for playing thanks for being part of it
a nice little turd going up we’ve got 27
samples so far which is far exceeded
anybody’s expectations and we are here
in Mongolia in the northernmost part of
the country and place called the dark
hog valley and we’re here to learn about
Wolverines to gather scat and DNA
evidence so we can learn about their
similarities to North American
populations so that we can learn about
their habits and really gain any
information we can from this incredible
species that we just don’t know anything
about this is a scat sample of a
Wolverine and it’s a great scat tons of
hair and they’re in bone but the really
confounding thing is this probably can’t
see it this red blob in here that was
attached to the scat and we’re just left
to speculate on what that is we’ve got
Jason with us who is a world-renowned
Wolverine ecologist Rebecca who is our
Mongolia Wolverine expert we’ve got
Forrest with us who is an adventurer
extraordinaire and we’ve got Jim with us
who’s capturing the images for this trip
in a great way there’s Wolverines here
Wolverine where there’s Wolverine
mongolia there’s Wolverine it won’t go
in you know I think the hard part is the
bit it’s a climate we haven’t been into
before I think it’s gonna be cold it
could be real cold even I gotta call
snot metronome it helps me keep time
when I’m breaking trail so he’s just
come over pretty windy pass pretty damn
cold
I’d guess with the windchill it was
about negative oh I don’t know maybe
about zero I got a couple miles before
we get out of this wind and cold the
groups ahead of me I can barely see them
through the white I can’t really tell
where the sky in the ground meet ya
pretty wild
we weren’t what a mile up the valley
when this train of horses appears and
it’s the very first animals from this
migration of people moving into Dar
Howard Valley for the summertime since
yesterday afternoon we’ve seen what
probably passed a thousand stock animals
so they’ve passed us it’s more accurate
she’s been doing like the salmon
upstream thing following this trail as
camels oxen sheep goats people riding
horses carrying calves in their lap it’s
a trip I’ve never seen animals carry
animals we’ve gone oh somewhere over 300
miles collected 29 Wolverine samples
seen 25 or so tracks we’ve done what
everybody is feeling like was an amazing
job of documenting the natural history
of this range and we get to finish on
holy cow what a spectacular day thanks
for playing thanks for being part of it
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