Talk:Mustelidae

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[edit] Terms

It seems very ironic that this page does not avoid weasel terms! Phrases in the first two sentences -- "are regarded by some" and "are maligned by humans" are prime offenders. I'd fix it myself but I don't know how to even begin to track down actual references and primary sources to these "facts" -- and I suspect they have value, so I don't want to just delete them. - User:Cayzle

That's hilarious! Mustelidae are the weasliest of families. JamesHoadley 02:56, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

There is a rule that if a higher taxon is named for a genus, it must contain that genus. How then, if Mustela is moved from Mustelidae to Mephitidae, can Mustelidae still be named Mustelidae? -phma

Mustela (weasels) haven't been moved to Mephitidae. Only skunks have been moved, which includes the genera Mephitis, Spilogale and Conepatus. --JRawle 00:04, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sea Otters being driver to extinction by oil spills?

I'm not denying that oil spills are an terrible medium-term environmental disasters, but I don't think sea otters are being oil spilt to death! Just a thought. It's just that if otters were really wide-spread, they would often be affected by oil spils, but if they shrunk to just one or two colonies, then they'd hardly be hit.

I guess if they were right on the extinction limit (~100 members left) and an oil spill hit the colony, it might kill them. JamesHoadley 02:56, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The "nasty cat" interpolation

Looking at the history, it's clear that this fails the NPOV and formal-language standards. I'll add the common names "nasty cat" and "skunk bear" in a more appropriate place. This is the first time I've reverted page vandalism when I couldn't just revert to the last good version without losing subsequent good edits... weird. The Jack 00:12, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

If sea otters are being killed by oil spills the government should do something about it. Sea otters are really cool and awesome creatures, I mean I like very few animals and this is one of the them. The sea otters have my respect and I hope the earn others' as well.

Peace Out Man,

The Draken —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.122.7.253 (talk) 00:07, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New Wikiproject

I wanted to make a wikiproject about ferrets and weasels but it became to small a range so i have made a bigger wikiprojects including all animals in the Musteloidea super family which include both ferrets and weasels and much similar animals. Support would be appreceated.

you can find it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Weasels

i also made a little template for the project,

I hope you like it.

This wikiproject is for the superfamily of Musteloidea which currently and surprisingly does not have an article yet. This superfamily includes ferrets and weasels and all of our other furry little weasel like friends. Please put your name on it so this article could have it's very own wikiproject outside of wikiproject animals.

Teh Ferret 19:55, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] subcategorize?

I'd like to see subcategorized into Category:Otters, Category:Badgers, and Category:Weasels. Any taxonomic or other reason why that wouldn't be OK?--Mike Selinker 18:55, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Partial Reference

I've just changed one of the references to inline format... and realised that whoever originally posted it hadn't known the name of the article, and as I don't have access to JMammal, I don't know, either! I'm loath to remove the reference altogether, but if anyone can find out the title, could they put it in? Thanks! Anaxial 14:19, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

• Heh - it's properly referenced over at skunk. I've corrected it here now. Ignore me, nothing to see here, move along...Anaxial 14:32, 11 November 2007 (UTC)