#grison

[mustelizine]

Welcome everyone, from weasels to wolverines!

It is with great pleasure that I bring to you MusteliZine, an upcoming zine centered around the family of Mustelidae!

This is an artwork focused project, welcoming of artists of any skill level! The final zine will be completely free and in PDF format

Current status: Check-in 3 Dec 27th!

Directory below:

#questions and concerns - Answers for the ask box

#polls - Polls regarding the zine

#reblog - Reblogs from off of the account

#important - Important information regarding the zine such as guideline posts and scheduling

[grison-in-space]

... I have seen your profile pic in passing however many times and I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS A TORTOISE

"why does the header read 'weasels in space' ? I mean, who doesn't like weasels, right"

AND THE WORST OF IT IS

I finally noticed it is a honey badger

BUT MY BRAIN DELIVERS 'TORTOISE'

The best thing is that this is not the first time I have gotten this ask.

It's actually not a honey badger, by the way, but a greater grison (Galactis vittata), which are native to Central and South America. They aren't closely related to honey badgers or even badgers at all; they're actually rather closer to polecats in the Ictonychinae and then to true weasels. The resemblance to ratel or honey badgers is mostly convergent evolution!

This is a honey badger:

versus a greater grison:

There is also a lesser grison, which is mostly more southernly distributed but does overlap a little bit with the greater kind. Here's an image of a lesser grison (right) next to a greater grison (left).

[snototter]

A greater grison (Galictis vittata) in Las Pumas Rescue Center, Cañas, Costa Rica

by Bernard Dupont

[mustelidsdaily]

mustelid otd !! ✨

➤ greater grison 🪨🏞️

they are native to north and south america; ranging from southern mexico to central brazil, peru, and bolivia!

[e-c-guyot-blog]

Un chat chef de gare!

Voici Tama, chef de gare à Kinokawa au Japon! 😸La demoiselle au pelage calico, née dans la rue, avait été nommée chef de gare en janvier 2007 afin de relancer la fréquentation de la gare de Kishi en grand danger de fermer à cause de problèmes financiers. 🙀Sa tâche était d’accueillir les passagers, en portant le chapeau de chef de gare. En guise salaire, elle était nourrie…

[postcard-from-the-past]

Yodie and Grison, the two groundhogs playing football

French vintage postcard

[dog-and-doglike-tourney]

Greater grison

Giant panda

[ptitsuisse71]

Sur les bords du lac de Silvaplana

[2t2r]

Quelques affiches publicitaires pour les sports d'hiver dans les années 1920 -1930

Nouvel article publié sur https://www.2tout2rien.fr/affiches-publicitaires-pour-les-sports-dhiver-dans-les-annees-1920-1930/

Quelques affiches publicitaires pour les sports d'hiver dans les années 1920 -1930

[hazard-and-friends]

adding "border collie with registered name Forward Momentum, call name Miles" to the wish list

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Capricorns (Alpine ibex) clash on spring meadows in the Swiss canton of Grisons

Photograph: Gian Ehrenzeller/EPA

[grison-in-space]

OH MY GOD A GRISON IS A MUSTELID AND THAT'S WHY YOUR BLOG IS CALLED "WEASELS IN SPACE" OH MY GOD IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!!!

YEP THAT'S IT

all the avatars etc are the greater grison, Galictis vittata, which is native to Central America and northern South America. It's a generalist hunter and largely diurnal, which is why it's on my short list for predators that might localize singing mice by ear, but they're also Just Funny Guys.

People usually assume it's a honey badger / ratel, but if you look at a ratel next to a grison you can see that it's kind of like putting a fisher next to a wolverine. Here's the ratel:

Despite the similar coloring, grison are not closely related to badgers generally or ratels more specifically. You can see this in the phylogeny below, which has neat little sketches of the lesser grison (G. vittata) next to its home in the Ictonychinae with the polecats and the ratel itself (Mellivora capensis) right there on the very edge of the true badgers in the Melinae. All similarities are examples of convergent evolution.

By the way, you can see the tayra (Eira barbara) on this phylogeny too--they're a basal branch of the Guloninae with the wolverines.

[amber-tortoiseshell]

Phylogenetic weasel tournament

Family: Mustelidae

Subfamily: Ictonychinae

Genus: Galictis

Two very similar southern american species. They differ in their sizes and their natural ranges.

pictures: 1, 2, 3, 4

[mustelidsdaily]

mustelid otd !! ✨

➤ lesser grison 🪨🌱

like greater grisons, they are also native to south america, albeit the more southern portion of it!

[e-c-guyot-blog]

Chats dans le Monde : le Maneki Neko

Chats dans le Monde : le Maneki Neko Peut-être êtes-vous en train de vous demander “Un quoi ça???” 😁 (ou peut-être : “le groupe de rock italien?”) 😉 (c’est Maneskin!) Et pourtant je suis sûre que vous en avez déjà vus! Un Maneki-Neko, c’est une petite figurine japonaise de chat qui lève la patte! Grison (une chatte grise et grincheuse) : eh ben, il n’a pas l’air fin avec cette posture.…

[postcard-from-the-past]

Yodie and Grison, the two groundhogs camping

French vintage postcard