This time on Candid Animal Cam, Romi introduces the tayra, a widespread member of the weasel family, found in Mexico and Central and South America …
Read more on Mongabay:
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/what-is-a-tayra-candid-animal-cam-is-in-the-americas/
Look at me, I’m a tayra!
Image: Ninahale, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Introducing a few other members of my weasel family (also known as mustelids) …
1. The American marten (scientific name: Martes americana)
Image: Tim Gage from Vancouver, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
2. The least weasel (scientific name: Mustela nivalis)
Image: Keven Law, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
3. The sea otter (scientific name: Enhydra lutris)
Image: Marshal Hedin from San Diego, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
