Zorilla (
Ictonyx striatus)
I know what you're thinking:
"What the fuck? Zorilla? That's a skunk!"
Although it resembles a skunk, the zorilla (or striped polecat as it is also known) is actually not a skunk at all. Skunks, in fact, are no longer members of the mustelid family, having been reclassified into their own family, the mephitae, along with the stink badgers. (Those damn taxonomists keep shuffling species into different catagories and forget to tell me about it!) But the zorilla remains classified as a mustelid. They are found all over Africa.
Before I move on to the otters and badgers, who are also mustelids, here are the ones I left out because I could find little to no information about them:
Greater grisón (
Galictis vittata)
Little grisón (
Galictis cuja)
Patagonian weasel (
Lyncodon patagonicus)
North African Striped weasel (
Poecilictis libyca)
African Striped weasel (
Poecilogale albinucha)
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