--- title: Wolverine Chews Through Cage at Newark Airport description: Wolverine from Norway chews through cage at Newark International Airport en route to Alaska =Wildlife Conservation Center. canonical: https://time.com/3825140/wolverine-newark/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-16T16:13:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:18:49.266Z og:title: 40-Pound Wolverine Chews Through Cage at Airport og:description: Wolverine from Norway chews through cage at Newark International Airport en route to Alaska =Wildlife Conservation Center. og:url: https://time.com/3825140/wolverine-newark/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 40-Pound Wolverine Chews Through Cage at Airport twitter:description: Wolverine from Norway chews through cage at Newark International Airport en route to Alaska =Wildlife Conservation Center. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 40-Pound Wolverine Chews Through Cage at Airport  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 16, 2015 4:13 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 16, 2015 4:13 PM UTC Being on a plane for hours can feel like being inside a cage. So it’s not too surprising that a 40-pound male wolverine named Kasper chewed through his metal cage at Newark International Airport Tuesday. The _New York Times_ [reports](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/nyregion/a-wolverine-lands-at-newark-airport-and-reinforcements-are-required.html?ref=nyregion&%5Fr=0) that the animal flew in from Norway’s Kristiansand Zoo and was passing through Newark to go through U.S. customs and connect flights en route to the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. While the animal did not actually escape (phew!), its growling did spook a representative from the wildlife conservation center, the _Times_ reports. But after all that fuss, when the Bronx Zoo provided a new cage, the wolverine did not want to make the switch, and had to be tranquilized for the transfer to happen. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3825140/wolverine-newark/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3825140/wolverine-newark/"},"headline":"40-Pound Wolverine Chews Through Cage at Airport","datePublished":"2015-04-16T16:13:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:49.266Z","description":"Maybe he needed more leg room?","url":"https://time.com/3825140/wolverine-newark/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3825140/wolverine-newark/","name":"40-Pound Wolverine Chews Through Cage at Airport"}}]}] ```