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nature's proof that chaos, muscle, and a long spine make a perfect predator.
means A member of the weasel family — weasels, stoats, otters, badgers, martens, wolverines, and their long-bodied, short-legged, sharp-toothed kin.
from From Latin 'mustela,' meaning weasel — a word of uncertain deeper origin, though some scholars link it to 'mus' (mouse), as if the weasel were once classed as a mouse-catching cousin, maybe even 'mouse-weasel' in ancient folk logic. The biological family name Mustelidae was built straight from that Latin root to gather all the weasel-shaped carnivores — otters, badgers, martens, and their low-slung relatives — under one scientific roof.
- family size
- weasels, otters, badgers, wolverines all qualify
- scent glands
- skunks got evicted from this family for oversharing
- metabolism
- least weasel eats its body weight nearly daily
- strength myth
- wolverines can fell prey many times their size