mustelid

"It's a super rare mutation," says Stankowich, who has studied mustelids, a group that includes badgers, minks, and weasels.

Otters primarily eat fish and are taxonomically part of the mustelid family along with weasels, badgers and wolverines.

A wolverine was spotted three times recently in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, the second mustelid mammal specimen spotted in the state in the past century.

If your husband can simply say, “Please, I don’t want a ferret,” you must give up your mustelid dreams.

Mink belong to the mustelid family of animals, which includes weasels, badgers, otters, martens, wolverines and ferrets.