#stoats — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #stoats, aggregated by home.social.
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“It’s fantastic to see the continued positive impact that removing stoats from Orkney is having on our native wildlife.”
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the new Olympic mascots are these super cute stoats, look at them!
"Our stoats are two cheerful and easy-going teenagers, energetic, determined and strong-willed, sometimes charmingly irreverent towards adults and eager to assert their role as protagonists in the world to come," the Milano Cortina organizing committee wrote."
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/02/nx-s1-5621915/winter-olympics-mascots-milo-tina
#olympics #stoats #weasels #mascots #OlympicMascots -
The evolution and spread of Mustelidae since the Miocene seems to hint at astonishing versatility and agility in the face of changing environments. This blog post is amazing on the divergence of #badgers #wolverines #otters #weasels #mink #ferrets #zorillas #martens #stoats and the rest.
So how is it that they remain marginal?
https://synapsida.blogspot.com/2012/11/weasels-in-stone-mustelid-evolution.html?m=1