Taxonomic outrage?
Apr. 30th, 2009 09:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gemfyreWolverine was thoroughly entertaining as expected.
My only gripe is the taxonomy of the whole thing. Howling at the moon, wolves do that, not wolverines. Wolverines (Gulo gulo) are squat critters more closely related to badgers and weasels than dogs or wolves. A wolf is Canis lupus, part of the Canidae, not the Mustelidae like the wolverine.
Yet, the head he finds in the woods? THAT was a wolverine.
My only gripe is the taxonomy of the whole thing. Howling at the moon, wolves do that, not wolverines. Wolverines (Gulo gulo) are squat critters more closely related to badgers and weasels than dogs or wolves. A wolf is Canis lupus, part of the Canidae, not the Mustelidae like the wolverine.
Yet, the head he finds in the woods? THAT was a wolverine.
