#MustelidMonday part 2 the Sweetmart - Pine marten.
Anyone know if the sweet - foul names come from their scat scents ?

#MustelidMonday the Foul mart - Polecat
The Welsh name is a continuation from this middle English name "Ffwlbart"
#eryri

Two Pine martens meeting up for some ruff n tumble on the Mawddach for #MustelidMonday
Badger and Polecat from llanbedr in the comments.
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Dragons and Red Kites are cool but imagine a national flag with a Polecat on it !
#mustelidmonday

#MustelidMonday offerings from the Mawddach woodlands.
Pine marten mummy (closest with reddish fur) and 2 kits rest on a fallen Oak.
Cwm Mynach - CoedCadw
#Eryri #Meirionnydd #Wales

Scent marking Polecats for #mustelidmonday at Coed Cadws amazing temperate rain forest Coed lletywalter up the back of Llanbedr.
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Is it #MustelidMonday already?

Pine marten with a fluffylight brown winter coat emerging from a bramble thicket on to a moss covered blown over tree.

#MustelidMonday from the Pine marten playground that is the Mawddach.
#Eryri #Meirionnydd

Mawddach Pine marten for #mustelidmonday #Eryri

Following yesterdays Otter prints a little tracking quiz for #MustelidMonday
Guess the Mustelid tracks ?
Answers tomorrow

What’s the first mustelid should I write about when I bring back #MustelidMonday? 🦊🧪🌎 (I forgot which emojis to use…)

Anthropomorphic Korean weasel loading a raygun.

Is #mustelidmonday a thing?

Photo by Nick Zimmer of a river otter in the water facing the camera with the head of a large gull in its mouth.

I’ll be reviving #MustelidMonday in December. Stay tuned if you’re into fun facts about the weasel family. 📷 Nick Zimmer

Photo of long tailed weasel in white phase fur standing on its hind legs in front of its den.

The soles of their feet, which are fur free in the summer, will get a coat in winter to keep their toes toasty & helps them walk on snow. 📷 Jana M. Cisar, USFWS 7/7 #MustelidMonday 🦤🌱🌎

The LTW doesn’t dig its own den, it uses one abandoned by a rodent. They are obligate carnivores & while they will occasionally scavenge they prefer their meals fresh. To make their home cozy they line their dens with fur, making full use of their kills. Very sustainable! 5/x #MustelidMonday 🦤🌱🌎

Illustration of a werewolf with yellow eye shine

People don’t have tapetum lucidum. That red eye you sometimes see in ppl pictures is light reflecting off our retinas. If you ever see someone with “eye shine” of any color … well, you might want to find the nearest exit cuz hon, that’s not who you think it is. #MustelidMonday 🦤🌱🌎

#MustelidMonday 🦤🌱🌎Long-tailed weasel (Neogale frenata) Can be found from Canada south to northern South America. It’s a little bigger than its short tailed cousin (which originated in Eurasia before coming to the Americas a ~500ky ago). The LTW got a new genus in 2021. 1/x. x.com/ap_magazine/...

I’m tired and not feeling very creative so I bring you this photo from the other place with the credit as part of the screenshot. An American marten. #MustelidMonday 🦤🌎 Perhaps later I’ll be motivated and will provide a better post.

I was thinking about today’s #MustelidMonday 🦤🌍🧪 while reading the news and started to wonder about what mustelids live in Ukraine, Israel, & Gaza. Meet the marbled polecat (Vormela peregusna). Doesn’t it look like a cross between a ferret & a box turtle with oversized Elmo ears? 📷 Wikipedia 1/

Weasels are the smallest carnivores in the world, females may be only 18cm in length and weigh as little as 50g, males are a little larger with an average length of 21cm and weight of 120g #MammalMonday #MustelidMonday #MondayMammalFact

Badgers often, though not always, dig small pits to make latrines in which to defecate (poop!) These are important to badger social life and can be used to mark the edge of territorial boundaries.

#MammalMonday #MustelidMonday #MondayMammalFact

Male Eurasian otters (Lutra lutra) usually weigh 8-10kg and are around 110-120cm in length (although roughly 44-48cm of that is tail!). Females tend to be a little smaller weighing in at 6-8kg and measuring 100-110 cm in length

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Much of an otter's diet is made up of fish and they are particularly fond of eels, but they are very adaptable and also eat inverts (e.g. crayfish, crabs, water beetles), frogs, waterbirds, small mammals and sometimes even snakes!

#MondayMammalFact #MammalMonday #MustelidMonday

Polecats are a similar shape to their relatives the stoats and weasels (long body, short legs, mid length tail) but are considerably larger with a big male potentially reaching nearly 60cm in length and 1.5kg in weight.

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Earthworms are one the most important foods for badgers, and can make up nearly half of their diet. But they are opportunistic and will also eat other insects, fruits, plants and small mammals when available.

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The Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) has the widest range of any otter species and can be found from the west coast of Ireland all the way across to east Asia and from North Africa to Northern Russia.

#MammalMonday #MustelidMonday #MammalFacts