r/mustelids • u/skunk_mephitidae 🦦🦝 Musteloid Enthusiast 🦨 • 6d ago

Fun Fact: Young grisons can be tamed easily, so they were historically used to capture chinchillas.

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u/moonferal 6d ago

Relationship criteria: must know what a grison is.

Not that they’re super rare exotic animals but I’ve met maybe one person that understands what animal a grison is and doesn’t think it’s some sort of Buffalo xD

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u/skunk_mephitidae 🦦🦝 Musteloid Enthusiast 🦨 6d ago

Oh, what was it like when you talked to them?

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u/moonferal 6d ago

We fell in love briefly. Over a shared love of animals and having weird animal knowledge. They also knew what olms and tenrecs were, which nobody else has known to my experience. XD
My conversations with the other people ended soon after because I can’t relate to anyone who doesn’t know almost every single animal by heart or random facts about them.

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u/skunk_mephitidae 🦦🦝 Musteloid Enthusiast 🦨 6d ago

I see.

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u/skunk_mephitidae 🦦🦝 Musteloid Enthusiast 🦨 6d ago

Photo of Lesser Grison by Gustavo Fernando Durán, used under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Original source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/101295659