The Wonderful World of Mustelids

As a long time mustelid lover I needed to share an article Hobb showed me about a ferret who worked at the National Accelerator Laboratory in the '70s.

http://history.fnal.gov/felicia.html

and

https://galileospendulum.org/2013/06/17/felicia-the-fermilab-ferret/

Wolverines can be taught to sniff out avalanche survivors. Don't worry - They'll be supervised.


and


Five new things discovered about Wolverines (one is that they can become trap happy)

There are a whole bunch of lost & wounded people - release the wolverines!?
I will admit that last photo is pretty cute, with that classic tilted head ferret look...

That CBC documentary looks good, I'll suggest it for movie night out here. We watched that PBS doc from the mid-2000s and it revealed how social wolverines actually were - and it made me feel embarrassed that I had not assumed that wolverines did not complex social behavior just because of their reputation. Wolverines could definitely use some good PR and I;m glad to see they are getting it.