Bears, Canines, and Felines are all pretty charismatic as well tbh

There are twenty-five extant families of carnivorans 1) Canidae (Dogs (contains 20 genera: Urocyon, Atelocynus, Speothos, Chrysocyon, Bassarilupus, Culpaeus, Lycalopex, Cerdocyon, Vulpes, Neocyon, Alopex, Nyctereutes, Fennecus, Otocyon, Lupulella, Lycaon, Flavocyon, Cuon, Prolupus, and Canis)) 2) Ursidae (Bears (contains 5 genera: Tremarctos, Melursus, Helarctos, Euarctos, and Ursus)) 3) Ailuropodidae (Giant Panda (contains 1 genus: Ailuropoda)) 4) Phocidae (Seals (contains 12 genera: Leptonychotes, Ommatophoca, Hydrurga, Lobodon, Neomonachus, Monachus, Pusa, Pagophilus, Histriophoca, Erignathus, Halichoerus, and Phoca)) 5) Cystophoridae (Hooded Seal and Elephant Seals (contains 2 genera: Mirounga and Cystophora)) 6) Otariidae (Sea Lions and Fur Seals (contains 9 genera: Callorhinus, Arctophoca, Cynophoca, Arctocephalus, Eumetopias, Zalophus, Neophoca, Phocarctos, and Otaria)) 7) Odobenidae (Walrus (contains 1 genus: Odobenus)) 8) Mephitidae (Skunks and Stink Badgers (contains 4 genera: Mydaus, Conepatus, Spilogale, and Mephitis)) 9) Procyonidae (Raccoons, Ringtail, and Cacomistle (contains 2 genera: Bassariscus and Procyon)) 10) Ailuridae (Red Panda (contains 1 genus: Ailurus)) 11) Nasuidae (Coatis, Olingos, Olinguito, and Kinkajou (contains 4 genera: Potos, Bassaricyon, Nasuella, and Nasua)) 12) Melidae (Badgers (contains 7 genera: Melogale, Bassaritaxus, Helictis, Mellivora, Taxidea, Arctonyx, and Meles)) 13) Mustelidae (Weasels, Ferrets, and Minks (contains 12 genera: Leucictis, Neogale, Neoputorius, Neovison, Ailurogale, Aciogale, Flavogale, Flavictis, Sciurogale, Mustela, Putorius, and Mesovison)) 14) Lutridae (Otters (contains 12 genera: Pteronura, Hydrictis, Lutrogale, Lutra, Afrolutra, Pilosorhinus, Amblonyx, Aonyx, Enhydra, Lontra, Neolontra, and Hydrogale)) 15) Ictonychidae (Zorillas, Muishund, Shulang, Huro, Grisons, Wolverine, Tayra, Martens, and Fisher (contains 10 genera: Pekania, Charronia, Martes, Eira, Gulo, Galictis, Lyncodon, Vormela, Poecilogale, and Ictonyx)) 16) Felidae (Cats (contains 20 genera: Herpailurus, Puma, Acinonyx, Panthera, Uncia, Jaguarius, Neofelis, Leptailurus, Caracal, Profelis, Pardofelis, Badia, Catopuma, Otocolobus, Lynx, Leopardus, Oncifelis, Oreailurus, Prionailurus, and Felis)) 17) Protelidae (Aardwolf (contains 1 genus: Proteles)) 18) Hyaenidae (Hyenas (contains 3 genera: Parahyaena, Crocuta, and Hyaena)) 19) Nandiniidae (African Palm Civet (contains 1 genus: Nandinia)) 20) Prionodontidae (Linsangs (contains 1 genus: Prionodon)) 21) Poianidae (Oyans (contains 1 genus: Poiana)) 22) Genettidae (Genets (contains 1 genus: Genetta)) 23) Viverridae (Civets (contains 12 genera: Civettictis, Viverricula, Viverra, Hemigalus, Chortogale, Dipogale, Macrogalidia, Cynogale, Arctogalidia, Arctictis, Paguma, and Paradoxurus)) 24) Herpestidae (Mongooses (contains 16 genera: Herpestes, Xenogale, Atilax, Ophiovora, Cynictis, Galerella, Paracynictis, Rhynchogale, Bdeogale, Ichneumia, Crossarchus, Suricata, Dologale, Helogale, Liberiictis, and Mungos)) 25) Eupleridae (Malagasy Carnivorans (contains 7 genera: Mungotictis, Galidictis, Salanoia, Galidia, Fossa, Cryptoprocta, and Eupleres)) There are also nine extant superfamilies: 1) Canoidea (Dogs and Fossil Relatives (contains 1 family: Canidae)) 2) Ursoidea (Bears and Giant Panda (contains 2 families: Ursidae and Ailuropodidae)) 3) Phocoidea (Seals, Hooded Seal, and Elephant Seals (contains 2 families: Phocidae and Cystophoridae)) 4) Otarioidea (Sea Lions, Fur Seals, and Walrus (contains 2 families: Otariidae and Odobenidae)) 5) Procyonoidea (Raccoons, Coatis, Skunks, and Relatives (contains 4 families: Mephitidae, Procyonidae, Ailuridae, and Nasuidae)) 6) Musteloidea (Weasels, Badgers, Otters, and Relatives (contains 4 families: Melidae, Mustelidae, Lutridae, and Ictonychidae)) 7) Feloidea (Cats and Fossil Relatives (contains 1 family: Felidae)) 8) Hyaenoidea (Hyenas and Aardwolf (contains 2 families: Protelidae and Hyaenidae)) 9) Viverroidea (Civets, Mongooses, and Relatives (contains 7 families: Nandiniidae, Prionodontidae, Poianidae, Genettidae, Viverridae, Herpestidae, and Eupleridae)) Here are the two major carnivoran groups (suborders): 1) Caniformia (Dog-Like Carnivorans (contains 15 families: Canidae, Ursidae, Ailuropodidae, Phocidae, Cystophoridae, Otariidae, Odobenidae, Mephitidae, Procyonidae, Ailuridae, Nasuidae, Melidae, Mustelidae, Lutridae, and Ictonychidae)) 2) Feliformia (Cat-Like Carnivorans (contains 10 families: Felidae, Protelidae, Hyaenidae, Nandiniidae, Prionodontidae, Poianidae, Genettidae, Viverridae, Herpestidae, and Eupleridae))

And smelly

And playful as heck

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ferrets are the best

Ferrets & polecats are adorable

@Kevin Ward, ferrets and polecats are actually the same thing.

My cottage was so cold one winter, my sable ferrets developed thick white neck ruffs😲

Thank you, David! Really glad you're enjoying them, I'm learning a lot as I make them too!

Thank you so much! The phylogeny in this one was fascinating to me, especially the naming conventions, which was super easy to see with Musteloidea

@@Textbooktravel The suffixes always confuse me lol -oidea -oidae -inae -idae -ini -ina Like damn😭

@Beach Chaos, not really, -oidea refers to superfamilies of animals, -idae refers to families of animals, -inae refers to subfamilies of animals, -ini refers to tribes of animals, and -ina refers to subtribes of animals.

@@Textbooktravel Have you thought about remaking some of your earlier videos with this new visual style? Having the maps and branching trees makes it much easier to follow.

Don’t give (your fellow?) Americans ideas. We don’t need more wild animals in cages.

@@kellydalstok8900 I hate exotic pet people. So many servals and caracals are taken from the wild to satisfy people's needs to look cool when other cool and slender cats exist like benegal cats and abyssinian cats

@@randomkinkajou5747 Well in reality those people are not much worse than people who continue to participate in dog domestication. In fact in many ways the latter is worse since it is far more destructive and damaging to the selected species especially on a macro scale. The latter simply justifies their actions because they are conveniently providing a human "solution" to an entirely human created problem, which not coincidentally benefits the human. Yet still, merely for their own pleasure, humans deny these animals every freedom: the ability to choose their own packs, the freedom to hunt, the freedom to mate, the freedom to raise their own kin, the freedom to migrate, the freedom to establish new territories, the freedom to evolve naturally. They throw leashes on these animals (entirely unnatural) in fear of that animal going off on its own and see no irony in the practice.

@@jonathang1700 dogs are actually perfectly fine living with humans, they're domesticated, not in domestication. The process is done

@@chillpill1266 why not domesticate red pandas?

Could also be a european polecat as they look almost identical

I think he accidently swaped the pictures since the „polecat“ shown two pictures before looks more like a black footed ferret to me. :)

Yeah, the people who don't have basic knowledge on the species get them confused, because they're pretty different. He also got the steppe polecat wrong and said stuff like wolverines trap ungulates in snow and yellow throated martens kill elk.

Same. Love martens & badgers but my favorite is the most pacifist ...the adorable red panda

They do just shorter coated. Surprisingly no mention of quolls or native cats of Australia .

Do those count as weasels thought

Thank you! Me too!!

Thank you, George!

Thank you, Chris!

Nope! Both Mongoose, Meerkat and Weasel, Polecat, Badger etc are all in the order Carnivora. The Mongoose and Meerkat are in suborder Feliformia, so more related to Felines the cat family, (despite looking Canid, the Hyena is also in the suborder Feliformia). The Weasel, Polecat, Badger etc are in the suborder Caniformia, so are more related to Canids the dog family.

@@zebedeemadness2672 very well explained. You saved me the effort of explaining.

It's a good example of convergent evolution.

@Zebedee madness, in fact there are actually there are twenty-five extant families of carnivorans 1) Canidae (Dogs (contains 20 genera: Urocyon, Atelocynus, Speothos, Chrysocyon, Bassarilupus, Culpaeus, Lycalopex, Cerdocyon, Vulpes, Neocyon, Alopex, Nyctereutes, Fennecus, Otocyon, Lupulella, Lycaon, Flavocyon, Cuon, Prolupus, and Canis)) 2) Ursidae (Bears (contains 5 genera: Tremarctos, Melursus, Helarctos, Euarctos, and Ursus)) 3) Ailuropodidae (Giant Panda (contains 1 genus: Ailuropoda) 4) Phocidae (Seals (contains 12 genera: Leptonychotes, Ommatophoca, Hydrurga, Lobodon, Neomonachus, Monachus, Pusa, Pagophilus, Histriophoca, Erignathus, Halichoerus, and Phoca)) 5) Cystophoridae (Hooded Seal and Elephant Seals (contains 2 genera: Mirounga and Cystophora)) 6) Otariidae (Sea Lions and Fur Seals (contains 9 genera: Callorhinus, Arctophoca, Cynophoca, Arctocephalus, Eumetopias, Zalophus, Neophoca, Phocarctos, and Otaria)) 7) Odobenidae (Walrus (contains 1 genus: Odobenus)) 8) Mephitidae (Skunks and Stink Badgers (contains 4 genera: Mydaus, Conepatus, Spilogale, and Mephitis)) 9) Procyonidae (Raccoons, Ringtail, and Cacomistle (contains 2 genera: Bassariscus and Procyon)) 10) Ailuridae (Red Panda (contains 1 genus: Ailurus)) 11) Nasuidae (Coatis, Olingos, Olinguito, and Kinkajou (contains 4 genera: Potos, Bassaricyon, Nasuella, and Nasua)) 12) Melidae (Badgers (contains 7 genera: Melogale, Bassaritaxus, Helictis, Mellivora, Taxidea, Arctonyx, and Meles)) 13) Mustelidae (Weasels, Ferrets, and Minks (contains 12 genera: Leucictis, Neogale, Neoputorius, Neovison, Ailurogale, Aciogale, Flavogale, Flavictis, Sciurogale, Mustela, Putorius, and Mesovison)) 14) Lutridae (Otters (contains 12 genera: Pteronura, Hydrictis, Lutrogale, Lutra, Afrolutra, Pilosorhinus, Amblonyx, Aonyx, Enhydra, Lontra, Neolontra, and Hydrogale)) 15) Ictonychidae (Zorillas, Muishund, Shulang, Huro, Grisons, Wolverine, Tayra, Martens, and Fisher (contains 10 genera: Pekania, Charronia, Martes, Eira, Gulo, Galictis, Lyncodon, Vormela, Poecilogale, and Ictonyx)) 16) Felidae (Cats (contains 20 genera: Herpailurus, Puma, Acinonyx, Panthera, Uncia, Jaguarius, Neofelis, Leptailurus, Caracal, Profelis, Badia, Catopuma, Pardofelis, Otocolobus, Lynx, Leopardus, Oncifelis, Oreailurus, Prionailurus, and Felis)) 17) Protelidae (Aardwolf (contains 1 genus: Proteles)) 18) Hyaenidae (Hyenas (contains 3 genera: Parahyaena, Crocuta, and Hyaena)) 19) Nandiniidae (African Palm Civet (contains 1 genus: Nandinia)) 20) Prionodontidae (Linsangs (contains 1 genus: Prionodon)) 21) Poianidae (Oyans (contains 1 genus: Poiana)) 22) Genettidae (Genets (contains 1 genus: Genetta)) 23) Viverridae (Civets (contains 12 genera: Civettictis, Viverricula, Viverra, Hemigalus, Chortogale, Dipogale, Macrogalidia, Cynogale, Arctogalidia, Arctictis, Paguma, and Paradoxurus)) 24) Herpestidae (Mongooses (contains 16 genera: Herpestes, Xenogale, Atilax, Ophiovora, Cynictis, Galerella, Paracynictis, Rhynchogale, Bdeogale, Ichneumia, Crossarchus, Suricata, Dologale, Helogale, Liberiictis, and Mungos)) 25) Eupleridae (Malagasy Carnivorans (contains 7 genera: Mungotictis, Galidictis, Salanoia, Galidia, Fossa, Cryptoprocta, and Eupleres)) There are also nine extant superfamilies: 1) Canoidea (Dogs and Fossil Relatives (contains 1 family: Canidae)) 2) Ursoidea (Bears and Giant Panda (contains 2 families: Ursidae and Ailuropodidae)) 3) Phocoidea (Seals, Hooded Seal, and Elephant Seals (contains 2 families: Phocidae and Cystophoridae)) 4) Otarioidea (Sea Lions, Fur Seals, and Walrus (contains 2 families: Otariidae and Odobenidae)) 5) Procyonoidea (Raccoons, Coatis, Skunks, and Relatives (contains 4 families: Mephitidae, Procyonidae, Ailuridae, and Nasuidae)) 6) Musteloidea (Weasels, Badgers, Otters, and Relatives (contains 4 families: Melidae, Mustelidae, Lutridae, and Ictonychidae)) 7) Feloidea (Cats and Fossil Relatives (contains 1 family: Felidae)) 8) Hyaenoidea (Hyenas and Aardwolf (contains 2 families: Protelidae and Hyaenidae)) 9) Viverroidea (Civets, Mongooses, and Relatives (contains 7 families: Nandiniidae, Prionodontidae, Poianidae, Genettidae, Viverridae, Herpestidae, and Eupleridae)) Here are the two major carnivoran groups (suborders): 1) Caniformia (Dog-Like Carnivorans (contains 15 families: Canidae, Ursidae, Ailuropodidae, Phocidae, Cystophoridae, Otariidae, Odobenidae, Mephitidae, Procyonidae, Ailuridae, Nasuidae, Melidae, Mustelidae, Lutridae, and Ictonychidae)) 2) Feliformia (Cat-Like Carnivorans (contains 10 families: Felidae, Protelidae, Hyaenidae, Nandiniidae, Prionodontidae, Poianidae, Genettidae, Viverridae, Herpestidae, and Eupleridae))

@@indyreno2933 Who asked for a cut and paste info over load? The only questioning was of placement of the Mongoose.

I'd love that too but the phylogenetic relationships of birds is veryyyy messy. The only things broadly agreed on is that ratites + tinamous are the most basal group, folllwed by chickens + relatives and ducks + relatives. After that, literally no one is in agreement as to how all other birds should be classified

I'm so happy you mentioned plants!! I really wanted to do dive into the plant kingdom at some point but I didn't know if people would be into that! Also, the next video I'm working on is birds of prey! Thanks for the suggestions and feedback!

@@Textbooktravel I would be happy to see a similar video on plants, really happy for your great content

Thank you, Kai! These kinds of comments really make my day!

@@Textbooktravel your most welcome! I love your channel and your videos! Cant wait to see more in the future

Afrotheres, Primates, and Rodents are not families, Afrotheria is superorder that comprises of six extant orders and Primates and Rodents are both respectively orders.

@@indyreno2933 thanks. I tend to get confused with differentiating between animal orders and families.

The real battle is, who of them is cuter?

@@konradvonschnitzeldorf6506 I'm going for red pandas because they're the cutest when they're angry and they're smol