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Post by gardevoir on Oct 16, 2007 19:01:41 GMT -5
I remember when Judge Doom told the weasels about what happens if they laugh and that happened to their cousins hyenas. But what do you guys think about how the weasel's cousins look like?
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Post by Princess Dixie on Oct 16, 2007 20:20:35 GMT -5
They would look like hyenas. . .
Ha I'm boring sorry.
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Post by Veggirl on Oct 20, 2007 23:24:19 GMT -5
In FlametheCharmander's fanfic, they look like those hyenas from the Krypto Dog series. Me, I just think of normal Toony hyenas.
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Post by Sewer Weasel on Dec 5, 2007 11:03:54 GMT -5
I'm with Veggirl.
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Post by Sodapop on Mar 10, 2008 11:17:18 GMT -5
I think they were anthropomorphic (or something that, I forgot the word) Toon Hyenas.
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Post by Fatal hilarity on Mar 12, 2008 18:35:56 GMT -5
I'm not sure if they were supposed to be cousins to the weasels- I always got the impression that the hyenas were cousins to each other... being canine rather than mustela after all.
I think someone said they liked to think of them as resembling the hyena in the soccer game scene from Bedknobs and Broomsticks (the best scene in an otherwise lame and boring Mary Poppins wannabe, IMO). I'm inclined to agree- it's probably Disney's oldest hyena toon design, and since they have the Mary Poppins penguins in WFRR about 15 years before they existed in our world, I figure there's no problem.
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Post by wifeofsmartass on Sept 6, 2008 2:30:25 GMT -5
The "hyena cousins" phrase that Doom said never made sense to me. Hyenas aren't even remotely related to weasels. The closest relative to the hyena is the mongoose, and therefore hyenas are related to cats, along with the primitive, ancestral mammals that are linked to felines, such as the genet, civet, linsang, fossa, ect. These animals and hyenas belong to feliformia, the suborder within carnivora. But within the order carnivora, weasels belong to caniformia, and are linked to animals in this suborder, such as dogs, bears, raccoons, seals, red pandas, ect. It would have been more appropriate for an animal from caniformia to be a "cousin."  |
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Post by Weasel Freak on Sept 6, 2008 10:19:07 GMT -5
Fossa is related to otters, and otters are related to weasels.
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Post by wifeofsmartass on Sept 6, 2008 23:22:39 GMT -5
They aren't related. The fossa is related to mongoose and is in the family eupleridae, which includes Malagasy civets and mongooses. The otter is in subfamily lutrinae, which belongs to the mustelidae family with all the other weasels.  |
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Post by Weasel Freak on Sept 7, 2008 11:10:12 GMT -5
... I think I read somewhere about mongoose being related to.. nvm, I think it was posted by Veggirl or Spikey, and it could be wrong.
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Post by wifeofsmartass on Sept 7, 2008 23:44:27 GMT -5
I see.  Well, if you google the fossas scientific name, cryptoprocta ferox, then you'll get all sorts of info about their classifications and how they're related to mongooses, and mongooses aren't related to weasels. (some sources say the fossa is in viverridae, and most i've read, eupleridae. Apparently some scientists are in a dispute about it. But regardless, they each contain mongoose-like animals and such. |
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Post by theamericanmarten on Oct 4, 2010 23:21:28 GMT -5
They would look like hyenas. . . Ha I'm boring sorry. Absolutely. |
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Well, if you google the fossas scientific name, cryptoprocta ferox, then you'll get all sorts of info about their classifications and how they're related to mongooses, and mongooses aren't related to weasels. (some sources say the fossa is in viverridae, and most i've read, eupleridae. Apparently some scientists are in a dispute about it. But regardless, they each contain mongoose-like animals and such.