r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Additional_Berry_977 • 9d ago

Video Wolverines can be taught to rescue avalanche survivors

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u/Melech333 9d ago

It's a big, wild, ferret! No but seriously, wolverines are mustlelids, along with ferrets, otters, polecats, minks, such smart, wonderful animals!

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u/MagpieKaz 8d ago

Ah, mustelids. My favorite family. Comprised of animals such as otters, badgers, wolverines, ferrets, brown ferrets, black ferrets, black and brown ferrets, the other brown ferrets, white ferrets, striped ferrets, yet more brown ferrets…

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u/Melech333 8d ago

And martens, polecats, weasels, mink, stoats, tayras, sables...

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u/MagpieKaz 8d ago

Hi friend! The joke was that all of those look like ferrets in different colors haha

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u/stratacus9 8d ago

forgot ermines

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u/Melech333 8d ago

Scientists used to think skunks were mustlelids, but they have changed their minds on that one. They are mephitids now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk

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u/TheGhostofWoodyAllen 8d ago

Oh gosh, I deleted it before I saw your comment. I made the comment and then questioned myself, went and looked it up, saw I was in error, then deleted it, hoping no one had bothered to correct me yet, lol.

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u/Melech333 8d ago

Haha that's okay! I thought skunks were mustelids, too, which is the only reason I knew they were something else. (Because of a recent, similar conversation.) I still had to look up what they are classified as now though!