#haida ermine

[amber-tortoiseshell]

Phylogenetic weasel tournament

Second place battle - now everyone bested by the least weasel gets another chance

pictures: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

[animal-families-tournaments]

[darkipt]

me and my wife's fursonas!!!

[ceiling-karasu]

Trying to sleep and just had an epiphany

I wanted Nurse Eomin to have a nickname given to them by the Weasel Unit that basically translates into ‘cold hearted’ or ‘Ice Queen,’ because unlike the other nurses, she does not flirt with the patients or superiors. At least until Geumsaegi comes around and she tires to pass on a message by pretending to flirt with him (no real romance in here either).

But I could not find a name I could connect with. There was Nunsongi, but I decided I vastly preferred using that name for the squirrel in the Kidnapped Scientists AU. Figured I might drop the idea.

But I just realized that the Weasel Unit would be more likely to use a Japanese name, not a Korean one, for something like that.

There’s about 70 Japanese names involving ice and snow with different meanings. I just need to figure out the connotations of each one, maybe? Find some old timey slang for Ice Queen/cold hearted?

[formlines]

Ermine

Alyson Bell

from the website: The ermine species found on Haida Gwaii is endemic and has been isolated for the last 300.000 years. It is a subspecies under the name Mustela Erminea Haidarum. It loses its summer colours every year to better camouflage itself in the snow. The ermine is a beautiful and transformative being.

[charring58]

Ermine-tail headdresses with wooden frontlets carved with mythic animals were worn as symbols of rank. #Haida chiefs preside over rituals for almost every phase of life, including birth, initiation, and death. These headdresses were made to dance in and were worn with sumptuous ceremonial regalia.

[ailurocide]

OKAY, which cheat sheets + bases/templates do we want first? ;)

[rarebritney]

tag yourself I'm haida ermine

[weirdcreaturefeed]

Weird Creature of the Day: Stoat AKA Eurasian ermine

Say hi stupendous stoats! Hi Mustela erminea!

Spread across most of the northern regions of the planet, stoats are living large at Of Least Concern status. For most of modern taxonomy's history, stoats were considered one very widespread species, but studies in 2013 and 2021 set to rest the decision to further classify the stoat into 3 distinct species: M. erminea, who I'm spending time with today, M. richarsonii, the American ermine, and M. haidarum, the Haida ermine. M. erminea also has 21 subspecies currently recognized.

Ermine traditionally refers to the bright white winter coats these mammals grow, which were considered a luxury material in late medieval Europe into the Renaissance and beyond. Mary Magdalene is sometimes portrayed as a trendsetter in one of these snazzy white pelts, and I hear they were also a childhood favorite of the Jesus man. I wonder what he's up to these days

Stoats are mustelids, a type of carnivorous mammal. The mustelid family also includes weasels, badgers, martens, otters, ferrets, and wolverines. They're the largest family in the Carnivora suborder Caniformia. Stoats in particular are highly efficient predators, taking down other mammals larger than themselves-- a good thing too, since they have to eat roughly 25% of their body weight every day!

Stoats fit in well in their regions of origin, but are highly invasive in Aotearoa/New Zealand, where they were introduced in the 1880s. What started as a foolhardy attempt to control rabbit populations is now considered one the most decimating hits on Aotearoa's native birds.

Stoats gestate their fertilized young in utero for about as long as humans do- roughly nine months, give or take a few weeks. This feels less mundane if you take into account most stoats live only 4-6 years in the wild. Interestingly, stoats can keep fertilized embryos dormant-- their bodies are can hold off on actually implanting an embryo for 9-10 months at a time, to ensure that the birth of the fetus occurs at a safe time of year. This also means that should winter be particularly harsh, the mother can reabsorb the dormant embryos to ensure her survival (to reproduce at a later date!).

Stoats are kind of like bankers in that they love evicting their neighbors and ruining lives! By that I mean they inhabit the dens and burrows of the rodents they kill.

Eurasian stoats have noteworthy roles in Irish, Komi, and Zoroastrian mythology.

[chlorotter]

anyways hello tumblr

im just some guy browsing the internet. i like pmd:eos and writing. i kinda suck at art besides small spriting. huge fan of music with odd tastes.

favorite animals!!! - pallas's cat - north american river otter - american marten - black-footed ferret - haida ermine

because im too lazy to explain my taste in music, take a playlist.

[amber-tortoiseshell]

Phylogenetic weasel tournament

Family: Mustelidae

Subfamily: Mustelinae

Genus: Mustela

Pictures: 1, 2

Sorry this is all for now i'm camping i just wanna keep the tournament on track

[animal-families-tournaments]

[whats-this-mustelid]

This mustelid is an ermine! (Mustela erminea)!

Ermines are stoats, also known as short-tailed weasels. Generally the name ermine is only used for stoats in their white winter coat, like this one. They are larger than least weasels, smaller than long-tailed weasels, and have black tips on their tails. There are 21 known subspecies.

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[fairylake]

Tlag | Haida ermine By USDA Forest Service Northern Region

[neat-deadandlive-things]

NEW ERMINE JUST DROPPED!

This is actually really cool biologically. This new species of ermine (adorable weasel-like animals) is a hybrid of other species that were isolated in Haida Gwaii for 300 thousand years. They're distinct genetically and morphologically and are only found off of BC's coast.