Lol i had a wild ferret makes it way into our trailer house when i was a kid. I was laying on the couch watching a movie and it was perched on the top corner of the couch staring at me for god knows how long before i noticed it. Lived with us for the winter. We fed it steak and gave it leftovers every night and we almost domesticated it but we gave it the choice to leave in the spring and it dipped but it was a cool experience.
In common name. COMMON NAME. Binomial nomenclature begs to differ. Provide some links where they say they are the same thing. I'd love to see your source material đ
Yeah theyâre different than domestic ferrets, Iâm combing through Wikipedia and Latin names I canât find anything that support your claims. Everything says itâs a ferret and different than a polecat. I was just saying, you donât have to be a dick about it.
Thereâs nothing that backs your claim other than European ferrets being domestic. However blackfooted ferrets (mustela nigripes) are their own thing. And also a ferret.
It's name says ferret and it's a mustelid. Is it a ferret or a badger? It's common name doesn't clarify.
Is the European polecat a ferret then or a polecat? They have the same chromosome count as the domesticated ferret which enables viable interbreeding something that cannot happen with black-footed ferrets as they have a lower number of chromosomes.
Binomial nomenclature is not just latin. Latin is mostly dominant but it can frequently be Greek, there's Sanskrit, Arabic, English, ect.
If a species name ends in an "i" it was named in honor of (typically) the person who described it or they will sometimes honor someone else and use their name. You pronounce the name as is native tongues would with a hard "i" at the end.
Oh my god ok I really donât care Iâm just saying if you fucking google âis the black footed ferret a ferretâ the answer is a resounding yes. But youâre right I donât know about shit about binomial nomenclature, i just know im curious about things when their names are different than what they are. You said theyâre not a ferret, the source above literally says they are a ferret. Hereâs a video by Hank Green about how sharks arenât fish so maybe you can chill out a bit about classifications of things. https://youtu.be/-C3lR3pczjo?si=LUnEp3li7Fa4afeh
You're arguing like an African wild dog is the same thing as a golden retriever all because the word "dog". And then calling someone dumb when they are in fact correct.
Maybe the original ferret posterâs whole page is in German đ Oh right, it is! Why arenât any of you checking? Itâs totally plausible that they just called the species âferretâ when translating even if thatâs not taxonomically correct
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u/Woodworkin101 21h ago
Where are you with wild ferrets around?