Mustelids in captivity

Gibbonsagainstgravity said:
Mustelis that I have seen:

American badger (wild!)
Yellow throated marten (Tierpark Berlin)
Wolverine (ZooMontana)
Giant otter (Philadelphia zoo)
Asian small-clawed otter (Bronx zoo, Smithsonian national zoo)
North American river otter (Ross Park zoo, Prospect Park zoo, Rosamond Gifford zoo, Elmwood Park zoo, North Carolina zoo)
Domestic ferret (Cayuga Nature center)
Black-footed ferret (Smithsonian national zoo)
Honey badger (Naples zoo)
Striped skunk (ZooTampa at Lowry Park, Naples zoo, Bronx zoo)

I may have forgotten some.
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Skunks are not members of the family Mustelidae, they are actually members of the family Mephitidae.
 
MurphyFox said:
I do love mustelids myself.

Mustelids I've seen:
North American River Otter
Sea Otter
Asian Small-Clawed Otter
African Clawless Otter
Eurasian Otter
Giant Otter
Smooth-Coated Otter
Domestic Ferret
European Polecat
Black Footed Ferret
Least Weasel
Stoat
American Mink
European Pine Marten
American Marten
Yellow Throated Marten
European Badger
Wolverine
BONUS: Fisher (seen in the wild but not captivity)

Also have seen Sea Otter and NARO in the wild but also in captivity
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Just out of curiosity, where have you seen European badgers?
 
Mustelids I've seen:

American Badger
Wolverine
American Marten
American Mink
Domestic Ferret
Black Footed Ferret
Giant Otter
Asian Small Clawed Otter
Sea Otter
North American River Otter
Spotted Necked Otter
Fisher
African Striped Weasel
 
I have seen the following: -

Tayra
European wolverine
Pine marten
Beech marten
Northern yellow-throated marten
Chinese ferret-badger
Greater grison
Zorilla
Asian small-clawed otter
Alaskan/Northern sea otter
Northern American river otter
Eurasian otter
Indochinese smooth-coated otter
Giant otter
European badger
West African ratel
Stoat
Least weasel
Domestic ferret
European mink
European polecat
Siberian weasel
American mink
 
My list isn’t super impressive, but worth sharing nonetheless.

Cape Clawless Otter
North American River Otter
Spotted-Necked Otter
Asian Small-Clawed Otter
Northern Sea Otter
Giant Otter
Stoat
American Mink
Tayra
Greater Grison
Ratel
Black-Footed Ferret
Domestic Ferret
American Badger
Wolverine
 
Here is my list:
American Mink
Asian Small-Clawed Otter
Central African Ratel
European Pine Marten
Chinese Ferret-Badger
Javan Ferret-Badger
Euroasian Otter
European Badger
European Mink
European Polecat
European Wolverine
Giant Otter
Greater Grison
Hog Badger
Indochinese Smooth-Coated Otter
Least Weasel
Lesser Grison
North American River Otter
Northern Marbled Polecat
Northern Sea Otter
Northern Yellow-Throated Marten
Saharan Striped Weasel
Siberian Weasel
South African Ratel
Spotted-Necked Otter
Stoat
Stone Marten
Syrian Marbled Polecat
Tayra
Zorilla
 
Okay, here we go. Asterisk on the ones seen only wild, Plus on the ones seen both captive and wild.

Tayra
Wolverine
Yellow-throated Marten
Fisher
African Striped Weasel
Cape Clawless Otter
Asian Small-clawed Otter
Sea Otter+
Spotted-necked Otter
North American River Otter+
European Otter
Giant Otter
Ratel
Domestic Ferret
Black-footed Ferret
Short-tailed Weasel*
Siberian Weasel
Long-tailed Weasel*
American Mink*
American Badger+
 
My list is the following;

Asian short-clawed otter
California sea otter
Giant otter
Indochinese smooth-coated otter
North American river otter
European pine marten
Northern yellow-throated marten
European wolverine
Greater grison
European badger
Central African honey badger
Tayra
 
My updated mustelid list, same symbols as @Ituri used:

-American Badger+
-Ratel
-Eurasian Badger
-Tayra
-Pekan/Fisher
-Wolverine
-Yellow-Throated Marten
-Beech Marten
-European Pine Marten
-American Pine Marten
-Greater Grison
-Marbled Polecat
-Zorilla
-American Ermine+
-Siberian Weasel
-Eurasian Mink
-Black-Footed Ferret
-European Polecat
-Long-Tailed Weasel
-American Mink*
-Giant Otter
-North American River Otter+
-Sea Otter
-Spotted-Necked Otter
-Eurasian Otter
-Asian Small-Clawed Otter
-Cape Clawless Otter
-Smooth-Coated Otter

~Thylo
 
The following six of Mustelids inhabit the wilds of South Korea, but I have never seen any of them in the wild.

  • Amur yellow-throated marten
    (Martes flavigula borealis)
  • Amur badger (Meles leucurus amurensis)
  • Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra)
  • Siberian weasel (Mustela sibilica)
    • Korean weasel (Mustela sibirica coreanus)
    • Jeju weasel (Mustela sibilica quelpartis)
  • Korean least weasel (Mustela nivalis mosanensis)
And next following is a Mustelids list that I could saw in Korean zoos.

Amur yellow-throated marten (Martes flavigula borealis): A total of four are at the Korean zoo: three at Seoul Zoo and one at the National Institute of Ecology, and all of them were rescued from the wild. I know that these two facilities are paying attention to rescued yellow-throated martens, because they are Korea's protected species and are difficult to secure due to their ecological characteristics.

Seoul Zoo, the only zoo that raises several martens, plans to build a closed facility at the Native Species Breeding Center in the zoo to conduct breeding studies. As it is a species that has not been properly studied in Korea, I hope that they will focus more on research than on displaying them for visitors.


Amur badger (Meles leucurus amurensis): Basically, they are also mainly rescued from the wild, but If there is a badgers that has moved from the badger farm to the zoo, they are likely not amur badgers.

In Korea, there are farms that raise badgers to collect badger oil, saying it is good for health. Based on statistics from 2021 Korea's Ministries for Food, Agriculture, Forest and Fishery, there were 1775 badgers in 27 farms. Badgers here are imported from China, not from the wilds of Korea, and are known to have hog badgers and hybrid badgers. It is possible that they escaped to the wild, but there have been no studies.

As Korea's terrible asiatic black bear breeding problem, which has been done for decades to get bear bile, began to be resolved in the 2020s with the activities of animal rights groups that built sanctuary and rescued bears and moved them to zoos and oversea's sanctuary, analysts say that sanctions on badger breeding are needed next. Badgers are also clear wild animals, not livestock, so I think sanctions are necessary.


Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra): It is an animal that has been strangely preferred by local public zoos in Korea since a few years ago. I think that the zoo's preference is due to its appearance that people consider cute and that it is a natural monument in Korea, and I think there was a positive part in that zoo's preference was expressed through the provision of a better environment through the amelioration of facilities. However, I don't think it's good for many zoos to focus too much on one species.

It has been pointed out recently that in the wild, they have been steadily protected in the absence of predators, so the number has increased and that they cannot cope with some otters attacking fish farms because they are natural monuments. The Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Korea is considering lowering the otter from the I Class endangered species to II Class.


Asian small-clawed otter (Aonyx cinereus): While eurasian otters gets preferred in public zoos for just a few years, small-clawed otters have long been a favorite in private zoos and aquariums. This may be because it was possible to ignore the inconvenience of obtaining permission from both the Cultural Heritage Administration and the Ministry of Environment when keeping eurasian otters.

When I watching small-clawed otter in any facilitates, I could often hear visitors saying, "I want to raise them at home!" However, not only does Korean law prohibit individual breeding of mammals above Cites Appendix II, and I think that visitors must not to get greed for animals but get knowledge about animals by observing living animals in zoos and aquariums. So I hope I don't hear that.


Domestic ferret (Mustela furo): I'll skip the details. I understand it's mostly raising in private indoor zoos, but it's sometimes been in public zoos as well. Maybe it was probably donated by a civilian.


Other than this, more than two Tayra(Eira barbara) were on display at Everland's Nocturnal Pavilion until a few years ago. But I haven't been to the Nocturnal Pavilion, and the facility disappeared in early 2020, so this Tayra's whereabouts are unknown.

And the National Institute of Ecology initially planned to raising Korean least weasel(Mustela nivalis mosanensis) but it didn't come true. I think it's because they judged their chances of death in captivity were very high.


Last the following is list of Mustelids that were completely disappeared in the Korean zoos.

Sea otter (Enhydra lutris): 63 Sea World(now 63 Aqua Planet)
North American river otter (Lontra canadensis) : Seoul Zoo, Daejeon Zoo(now Daejeon O-world)
American mink (Neogale vison): Seoul Zoo, Dalseong Park Zoo
European mink (Mustela lutreola): Seoul Zoo, Dongnae zoo, Yongin Farmland(now Everland)
Korean weasel (Mustela sibirica coreanus): Changgyeongwon, Seoul Zoo, Dongnae Zoo, Sungjigok Zoo(now Samjung The Park)
Japanese marten (Martes melampus): Changgyeongwon. Although there is a record, it is doubtful that it was actually a yellow-throated marten.
 
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Species I've seen:

Captive:
-American Badger
-Tayra
-Wolverine
-Fisher
-Greater Grison
-Asian Small-clawed Otter
-Sea Otter
-North American River Otter
-Spotted-necked Otter
-Domestic Ferret
-Black-footed Ferret
-American Mink

Wild:
-Fisher
-North American River Otter
-Least Weasel
-American Ermine
-American Mink
 
Seen a decent handful so far:

Wild:

American Mink
American River Otter
Sea Otter

Captive:

American Badger
American Mink
Long-tailed Weasel
American Marten
American River Otter
Spot-necked Otter
Asian Small-clawed Otter
Cape Clawless Otter
Sea Otter
 
One of the my favourite mammal families, but nothing out of the ordinary on my list.

Alaskan Sea Otter
American Badger
American Mink
Asian Small-Clawed Otter
- Central African Ratel
- South African Ratel
- West African Ratel
Eurasian Otter
European Badger
European Mink
European Pine Marten
European Polecat
European Wolverine
Giant Otter
Greater Grison
Indochinese Smooth-Coated Otter
Javan Ferret-Badger
Least Weasel
Marbled Polecat
North American River Otter
Northern Yellow-Throated Marten
Saharan Striped Weasel
Siberian Weasel
Spotted-Necked Otter
Stoat
Stone Marten
Tayra
Zorilla
 
TeaLovingDave said:
He says with a completely straight face, with taxa like Javan Ferret-badger, Marbled Polecat and Saharan Weasel on the list in question :p
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Sorry, I meant that most of ZooChaters are familiar with the species on my list and they are not very hard to reach, with some patience in front of the exhibit :)
 
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