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Anonymous
Here's a great story I read in a hunting magazine when I was in Alaska. Two guys shoot a moose and bury what they can't carry. They wrap the meat in canvas, put that in a hole, then put down a layer of rocks. They mix hot water with snow and pour the slush in with the rocks, which freeze together like concrete. Then they fill the rest of the hole in.
They come back a couple of weeks later and find a hole in the dirt. Digging down, they find what amounts to a moose-shaped cavity where their kill was.
They figure out the following: The wolverine smelled the meat, and dug down until it hit the rocks. It slept on the rocks so its body heat softened the ice, then dug the rocks out, ripped through the canvas and ate its way into the carcass. It then essentially set up camp and ate until it ran out of moose, then it went in its way.
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