#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

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[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.

[canislycaon24]

Thoughts on Stoatboy Tolys as a massive animal nerd:

He is almost certainly based on the Eurasian Stoat (Mustela erminea), since I would be very surprised if he would be based on the American Stoat (Mustela richardsonii) or Haida Ermine (Mustela haidarum). Fun fact: Eurasian Stoats are native to northern Eurasia (obviously), but they can also be found in northern North America! I’m having a lot of trouble figuring out which subspecies of Eurasian Stoat are in Lithuania, but my guess is that he’s the aestiva subspecies. I’d love to be corrected if I’m wrong though! 

He appears to be in his winter coat, which makes sense as it is winter in Lithuania at this point in time. His summer coat would be much more brown, and he would maintain a black tail-tip. His winter coat is likely much softer, silkier, and more dense than his winter coat. So if you only get one chance to pet him, wait until it gets cold. He probably moults twice a year, in the spring and autumn. In the spring his moult would start at the top of his head and move down, and in the autumn it would move in the reverse direction and be significantly quicker. Because his moult would be controlled by the amount of sunlight he’s exposed to, it might be possible that you could control his coat type and moults by locking him in a basement with no windows and carefully controlling the amount of time the lights are on. He’d also probably have a musk since mustelids are Like That. What would it smell like? Who knows. Because it’s Tolys it might smell good, but because he’s also a Stoat it might smell like. A Stoat. 

He’s likely a carnivore, eating primarily meat. Though since he used to be human, he’d probably still eat plants edible to him to supplement his diet. As he’s male, when he hunts, he may tend to go after larger prey than he would if he were female. For regular Eurasian Stoats that would mean rabbits, and since Gilbert has quite the history of canon Bunnyboy-ification, Stoatboy Tolys may view him as potential prey! The exact cause of the “weasel war dance” is still not fully understood. It could be to hypnotize prey as popularly thought, or it could be due to an infection. So maybe Tolys would do that regularly, or maybe he’d only do that if sick. 

Tolys eternally guarding the border makes a lot of sense Stoat-wise since Eurasian Stoats do in fact guard territories! He probably has multiple dens (or at least some sort of homes) within this territory. I think it would be really funny if during the breeding season (April to July) his Human brain and Stoat instincts would have to battle it out to see if he’ll maintain his duty of guarding the border or if he’ll wander off to search for someone into Stoatboys, as male Eurasian Stoats do. It’s also likely he would be poly. If he ever has kids somehow, his Human brain and Stoat instincts would probably once again have to battle it out to see if he’ll uphold his Human morals and help raise them or if he’ll be a deadbeat dad, since male Eurasian Stoats are unfortunately pretty shitty fathers.

Anyway, I think my brain chemistry has been altered by that one image. That’s all for now, folks.

[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? ;)

[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

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[rarebritney]

tag yourself I'm haida ermine

[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.