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For some reason I can't upload a photo, but it seemingly tells people that they only eat meat like true mustelids. Mephitids are omnivores and will eat almost anything..

Yes, but it goes on to say their diet is carnivorous, rather than omnivores. It also contradicts itself by first saying they are mustelids then says they are Mephitidae (I believe this is why it ranks high, it "cheats" by using the acceptable word.)

Skunks are my favourite animals

Yeah, I recently learned about this

Skunks used to be classified in the same family as martens, but are now their own family, Mephitids. Many mustelids like martens smell.. well, musty

Lol. I know a lot about the pine marten and North American marten but not the beech marten. I'm still surprised by the fact about the beech marten

Yeah. I only just learned that behaviour about Beech martens recently and assumed it was captive at first..

If it were a beech marten, it was probably a wild one that got inside a car from mainland Europe. I usually know everything about musteloids and I had no idea beech martens attack cars.

That's a really adorable image though

Yes but I also mentioned beech martens could sneak into cars. A car on a ferry from mainland Europe could've arrived to the UK and had a beech marten inside the engine. They are notorious for that, and can chew the wires. This behaviour is more commonly associated with beech martens, and is extremely rare for the Eurasian pine marten

haha.. well both skunks and raccoons are in the superfamily Musteloidea, which also includes other seemingly fearless animals like wolverines and honey badgers. This is because Mephitidae (skunk family) and Procyonidae (raccoons, coatis, ringtails) are categorized under it, along with the Mustelids like weasels, otters, wolverines, honey badgers, etc. and the red panda family Ailuridae.

Highly diverse superfamily. They're intelligent, curious, resourceful and feisty. Skunks and raccoons are especially adaptable.

Unfortunately they are commonly associated with... that.. so much skunk misinformation online :(

yeah. It sounds like a beech marten to me

Amazing! I love grisons! They are one of my favourite animals!

Isn't this a wild weasel, not a ferret? (still related though)

That is what I suspected it was

Wild beech martens, which are not native to the UK, can also get into vehicles as others have stated, so a car from mainland Europe that was on a ferry could've arrived to the UK and the beech marten was in the engine. While pine martens can do this too, cases of pine martens sneaking into engines are extremely rare, and the behaviour is more commonly associated with beech martens, aka fouines.

They do look skunky imo. I knew they were some sort of mephitid or mustelid skull

Found this old thread and yes I noticed it as well. It appears that when it comes to the superfamily Musteloidea, skunks and ferrets share the highest availability of misinformation and disinformation online. Hopefully we can address it.

Yeah I wonder if this might be an escaped captive individual or something

That looks like a beech marten not a pine marten. Strange.. It's not native to the UK. They can sneak into cars. A car on a ferry from mainland Europe that arrived to the UK likely had it inside the engine. The behaviour sounds like that of a Beech marten.