Big win for mink! This is the 22nd nation to ban fur farming.

Romanian lawmakers vote to phase out fur farming from 2027 | Reuters

I've become really interested in mustelids recently, however I don't know a huge amount about them. and I found two documentaries but neither are available anymore. can anyone recommend me any? the ones I cant find anywhere (without paying for a service subscription) are Weasels: Feisty and Fearless and Meet the mustelids

I’ve been seeing this mink for a long time but have never had a camera ready. I was in the right place at the right time to get this picture!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gr605rdneo

This is also very good news for Great Britain’s native red squirrel. The introduced gray squirrel outcompetes the reds and has pushed their population to the brink. But pine martens eat far more grays because they are bigger, slower and easier to catch. More pine martens is a win for red squirrels and all of us who love mustelids.

Let’s hope pine martens rebound in a big way!

Does anyone know of any sculpture and other media art featuring mustelids? I want a statue, but others might be cool.

I saw on Amazon that a book on pine martens is coming out in January. I’m excited because there is a real lack of good books on mustelids. I was hoping this thread could be a place where we could list out books on any mustelid species.

I’ll start. The Mink by Nigel Dunstone is the only book on mink that I have read that wasn’t about trapping mink or fur farming. I got my copy in the mid 90’s, but I don’t think anything newer has been written. Dunstone covers all the bases and really covers mink biology, how they hunt, swim, care for their young, etc.

Researchers -- and detection dogs -- scour the southern Oregon coast to track the elusive, endangered marten https://yachatsnews.com/on-the-trail-of-the-elusive-coastal-marten/

Little fella has been residing in my crawlspace the past few years.

Ferrets and some weasels do make the signature dook noise but I was wondering if other mustelid species dook or any equivalent?

Around sunrise near Kuhmo, Finland

The badger says "I'll have a whiskey on the rocks."

The wolverine says "I'll have a whiskey neat."

The martin says "I'll have a whiskey with a twist."

The otter says "I'll have a whiskey sour."

The bartender looks at the last one and says "and what will you have?"

"Pop," goes the weasel.

Can say with 100% certainty I saw a beech marten prowling around the literal downtown centre of Tirana next to a river which was unfortunately for a time a open sewer. Did not get a pic, kept scurrying away too quickly. With the situation dire enough to warrant a nationwide indefinitely extended hunting moratorium is this a sign of improvement, or a new contender for the coyotes equivalent spot as the cities apex predator, faring better in urban environments than the wild. Legislation has for reasons too convoluted to explain proven largely ineffective here. There is a rebound in wildlife as compared to the lawlessness exploitation of post communist collapse, but I’m wondering if this is emblematic of that or an outlier adapting to changing conditions. Could not find a single mention of urban beech martens in Albania online as expected, but am curious as to whether, given the country’s context in regards to conservationism, anyone else at least finds this intriguing. Any input would be much appreciated, can definitely say it made my night at the least. Wonderful whimsy little critters. Thanks.