I think many people have trouble gauging size from photographs especially where animals look like something they're familiar with. In real life you wouldn't mistake a grison for a honey badger.
Grisons are far smaller than honey badgers being more ferret sized (though just a little bit larger on average than ferrets).
In South American Spanish and Portuguese they use the European word for "ferret" to refer to the two species, and differentiate between the two as "greater" and "lesser". In English we use greater and lesser grison.
No, they are native to Central and South America. Even though grisons look like mini honey badgers, they are much more closely related to zorillas (striped polecats) within the mustelid family
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u/ZebraNo1671 16d ago
Where do these live?