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Genuine Mustelids

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• What Are Mustelids?
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• Ferret-Badgers

• Fisher

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• Otters

• Tayra

• Weasels (Includes polecats, the European mink, North American mink, and ferret.)

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Less mainstream factsDespite the claim in William Shakespeare’s “Henry V.”, weasels do not suck eggs. In relation, the misnomer term “weasel word” may have first appeared in Stewart Chaplin’s 1900 short story “The Stained-Glass Political Platform”, in which weasel words were described as “words that suck the life out of the words next to them, just as a weasel sucks the egg and leaves the shell”. The truth is some weasels have evolved a particular way to consume eggs. They bite a small hole in the egg, turn it so it lays in a horizontal position, then lick the liquid content when it starts flowing. So essentially they drain eggs, not suck them. Seeing empty eggshells left behind may have given rise to the myth that weasels suck eggs, which—due to lacking the necessary jaw muscles—they are not physically capable of doing.

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