Hmm... some of that may be too speculative due to the movie's relative ambiguity.
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Hmm... some of that may be too speculative due to the movie\'s relative ambiguity.
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Duke's coloring resembles either a least weasel or a stoat, but, as already discussed under AnimalsNotToScale, he is much too big. Although, a stoat still wouldn't be nearly ''as much'' of a stretch as a least weasel, size-wise. A polecat would be closer ''by far'' to being the correct size, but his coloration was not polecat-like at all. We seem to have already accepted that AnimalsNotToScale example on the basis that none of the species he looks like are as big as him, but his exact species is still ambiguous.
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Duke\'s coloring resembles either a least weasel or a stoat, but, as already discussed under AnimalsNotToScale, he is much too big. Although, a stoat still wouldn\'t be nearly \'\'as much\'\' of a stretch as a least weasel, size-wise. A polecat would be closer \'\'by far\'\' to being the correct size, but his coloration was not polecat-like at all. We seem to have already accepted that AnimalsNotToScale example on the basis that none of the species he looks like are as big as him, but his exact species is still ambiguous.
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As for Travis, well, I don't agree that he looks like a cheap recolor of Duke, regardless of how quickly that scene was made. But anyway...
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As for Travis, well, I don\'t agree that he looks like a cheap recolor of Duke, regardless of how quickly that scene was made. But anyway...
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Travis' coloration, as well as his not-very-tiny size relative to an unusually-big red fox of presumably similar age, seem to strongly indicate some sort of polecat or a ferret. The size part is muddied by Duke setting a precedent for not-to-scale weasels, but his coat coloration is still very distinctively polecat-like, strongly indicating that he's one of ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_polecat M. putorius]]'', ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-footed_ferret M. nigripes]]'', or ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppe_polecat M. eversmanii]]''.
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Travis\' coloration, as well as his not-very-tiny size relative to an unusually-big red fox of presumably similar age, seem to strongly indicate some sort of polecat or a ferret. The size part is muddied by Duke setting a precedent for not-to-scale weasels, but his coat coloration is still very distinctively polecat-like, strongly indicating that he\'s one of \'\'[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_polecat M. putorius]]\'\', \'\'[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-footed_ferret M. nigripes]]\'\', or \'\'[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppe_polecat M. eversmanii]]\'\'.
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But really, if we want the ''least speculative'' take on the canon, I'm not sure we can say anything totally definitive about either character except that they're both
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But really, if we want the \'\'least speculative\'\' take on the canon, I\'m not sure we can say anything totally definitive about either character except that they\'re both \"weasels\" in the general sense that they fall somewhere in the genus \'\'Mustela\'\'.
To put this in plain English, as would be preferable for the wiki text, we might merely describe either of them as being \"some sort of weasel\".
Though for Travis, I wouldn\'t be entirely opposed to taking the liberty of going a bit more specific and calling him \"some sort of polecat or ferret\".
Or even more simply (though maybe also more opaquely to those who don\'t know much about this), we might even just say \"some sort of polecat.\"[[note]]The \"black-footed ferret\" is also known as the \"American polecat\", so that would include them. Domestic ferrets are encompassed as well due to being a subspecies of European polecat.[[/note]]
But definitely don\'t go so broad as to simply call either of them \"mustelids\", as the family \'\'Mustelidae\'\' is \'\'\'much\'\'\' broader than the genus \'\'Mustela\'\' and also includes things like otters, badgers, and wolverines.
Hmm... some of that may be too speculative due to the movie's relative ambiguity.
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Hmm... some of that may be too speculative due to the movie\'s relative ambiguity.
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Duke's coloring resembles either a least weasel or a stoat, but, as already discussed under AnimalsNotToScale, he is much too big. Although, a stoat still wouldn't be nearly ''as much'' of a stretch as a least weasel, size-wise. A polecat would be closer ''by far'' to being the correct size, but his coloration was not polecat-like at all. We seem to have already accepted that AnimalsNotToScale example on the basis that none of the species he looks like are as big as him, but his exact species is still ambiguous.
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Duke\'s coloring resembles either a least weasel or a stoat, but, as already discussed under AnimalsNotToScale, he is much too big. Although, a stoat still wouldn\'t be nearly \'\'as much\'\' of a stretch as a least weasel, size-wise. A polecat would be closer \'\'by far\'\' to being the correct size, but his coloration was not polecat-like at all. We seem to have already accepted that AnimalsNotToScale example on the basis that none of the species he looks like are as big as him, but his exact species is still ambiguous.
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As for Travis, well, I don't agree that he looks like a cheap recolor of Duke, regardless of how quickly that scene was made. But anyway...
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As for Travis, well, I don\'t agree that he looks like a cheap recolor of Duke, regardless of how quickly that scene was made. But anyway...
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Travis' coloration, as well as his not-very-tiny size relative to an unusually-big red fox of presumably similar age, seem to strongly indicate some sort of polecat or a ferret. The size part is muddied by Duke setting a precedent for not-to-scale weasels, but his coat coloration is still very distinctively polecat-like, strongly indicating that he's one of ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_polecat M. putorius]]'', ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-footed_ferret M. nigripes]]'', or ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppe_polecat M. eversmanii]]''
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Travis\' coloration, as well as his not-very-tiny size relative to an unusually-big red fox of presumably similar age, seem to strongly indicate some sort of polecat or a ferret. The size part is muddied by Duke setting a precedent for not-to-scale weasels, but his coat coloration is still very distinctively polecat-like, strongly indicating that he\'s one of \'\'[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_polecat M. putorius]]\'\', \'\'[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-footed_ferret M. nigripes]]\'\', or \'\'[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppe_polecat M. eversmanii]]\'\'.
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But really, if we want the ''least speculative'' take on the canon, I'm not sure we can say anything totally definitive about either character except that they're both
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But really, if we want the \'\'least speculative\'\' take on the canon, I\'m not sure we can say anything totally definitive about either character except that they\'re both \"weasels\" in the general sense that they fall somewhere in the genus \'\'Mustela\'\'.
To put this in plain English, as would be preferable for the wiki text, we might merely describe either of them as being \"some sort of weasel\".
Though for Travis, I wouldn\'t be entirely opposed to taking the liberty of going a bit more specific and calling him \"some sort of polecat or ferret\".
Or even more simply (though maybe also more opaquely to those who don\'t know much about this), we might even just say \"some sort of polecat.\"[[note]]The \"black-footed ferret\" is also known as the \"American polecat\", so that would encompass them as well as European polecats. Domestic ferrets are encompassed as well due to being a subspecies of european polecat.[[/note]]
But definitely don\'t go so broad as to simply call either of them \"mustelids\", as the family \'\'Mustelidae\'\' is \'\'\'much\'\'\' broader than the genus \'\'Mustela\'\' and also includes things like otters, badgers, and wolverines.
Hmm... some of that may be too speculative due to the movie's relative ambiguity.
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Hmm... some of that may be too speculative due to the movie\'s relative ambiguity.
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Duke's coloring resembles either a least weasel or a stoat, but, as already discussed under AnimalsNotToScale, he is much too big. Although, a stoat still wouldn't be nearly ''as much'' of a stretch as a least weasel, size-wise. A polecat would be closer ''by far'' to being the correct size, but his coloration was not polecat-like at all. We seem to have already accepted that AnimalsNotToScale example on the basis that none of the species he looks like are as big as him, but his exact species is still ambiguous.
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Duke\'s coloring resembles either a least weasel or a stoat, but, as already discussed under AnimalsNotToScale, he is much too big. Although, a stoat still wouldn\'t be nearly \'\'as much\'\' of a stretch as a least weasel, size-wise. A polecat would be closer \'\'by far\'\' to being the correct size, but his coloration was not polecat-like at all. We seem to have already accepted that AnimalsNotToScale example on the basis that none of the species he looks like are as big as him, but his exact species is still ambiguous.
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As for Travis, well, I don't agree that he looks like a cheap recolor of Duke, regardless of how quickly that scene was made. But anyway...
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As for Travis, well, I don\'t agree that he looks like a cheap recolor of Duke, regardless of how quickly that scene was made. But anyway...
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Travis' coloration, as well as his not-very-tiny size relative to an unusually-big red fox of presumably similar age, seem to strongly indicate some sort of polecat or a ferret. The size part is muddied by Duke setting a precedent for not-to-scale weasels, but his coat coloration is still very distinctively polecat-like, strongly indicating that he's one of ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_polecat M. putorius]]'', ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-footed_ferret M. nigripes]]'', or ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppe_polecat M. Eversmanii]]''
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Travis\' coloration, as well as his not-very-tiny size relative to an unusually-big red fox of presumably similar age, seem to strongly indicate some sort of polecat or a ferret. The size part is muddied by Duke setting a precedent for not-to-scale weasels, but his coat coloration is still very distinctively polecat-like, strongly indicating that he\'s one of \'\'[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_polecat M. putorius]]\'\', \'\'[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-footed_ferret M. nigripes]]\'\', or \'\'[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppe_polecat M. eversmanii]]\'\'
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But really, if we want the ''least speculative'' take on the canon, I'm not sure we can say anything totally definitive about either character except that they're both
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But really, if we want the \'\'least speculative\'\' take on the canon, I\'m not sure we can say anything totally definitive about either character except that they\'re both \"weasels\" in the general sense that they fall somewhere in the genus \'\'Mustela\'\'.
To put this in plain English, as would be preferable for the wiki text, we might merely describe either of them as being \"some sort of weasel\".
Though for Travis, I wouldn\'t be entirely opposed to taking the liberty of going a bit more specific and calling him \"some sort of polecat or ferret\".
Or even more simply (though maybe also more opaquely to those who don\'t know much about this), we might even just say \"some sort of polecat.\"[[note]]The \"black-footed ferret\" is also known as the \"American polecat\", so that would encompass them as well as European polecats. Domestic ferrets are encompassed as well due to being a subspecies of european polecat.[[/note]]
But definitely don\'t go so broad as to simply call either of them \"mustelids\", as the family \'\'Mustelidae\'\' is \'\'\'much\'\'\' broader than the genus \'\'Mustela\'\' and also includes things like otters, badgers, and wolverines.
Hmm... some of that may be too speculative due to the movie's relative ambiguity.
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Hmm... some of that may be too speculative due to the movie\'s relative ambiguity.
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Duke's coloring resembles either a least weasel or a stoat, but, as already discussed under AnimalsNotToScale, he is much too big. Although, a stoat still wouldn't be nearly ''as much'' of a stretch as a least weasel, size-wise. A polecat would be closer ''by far'' to being the correct size, but his coloration was not polecat-like at all. We seem to have already accepted that AnimalsNotToScale example on the basis that none of the species he looks like are as big as him, but his exact species is still ambiguous.
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Duke\'s coloring resembles either a least weasel or a stoat, but, as already discussed under AnimalsNotToScale, he is much too big. Although, a stoat still wouldn\'t be nearly \'\'as much\'\' of a stretch as a least weasel, size-wise. A polecat would be closer \'\'by far\'\' to being the correct size, but his coloration was not polecat-like at all. We seem to have already accepted that AnimalsNotToScale example on the basis that none of the species he looks like are as big as him, but his exact species is still ambiguous.
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As for Travis, well, I don't agree that he looks like a cheap recolor of Duke, regardless of how quickly that scene was made. But anyway...
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As for Travis, well, I don\'t agree that he looks like a cheap recolor of Duke, regardless of how quickly that scene was made. But anyway...
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Travis' coloration, as well as his not-very-tiny size relative to an unusually-big red fox of presumably similar age, seem to strongly indicate some sort of polecat or a ferret. The size part is muddied by Duke setting a precedent for not-to-scale weasels, but his coat coloration is still very distinctively polecat-like, strongly indicating that he's one of ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_polecat M. putorius]]'', ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-footed_ferret M. nigripes]]'', or
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Travis\' coloration, as well as his not-very-tiny size relative to an unusually-big red fox of presumably similar age, seem to strongly indicate some sort of polecat or a ferret. The size part is muddied by Duke setting a precedent for not-to-scale weasels, but his coat coloration is still very distinctively polecat-like, strongly indicating that he\'s one of \'\'[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_polecat M. putorius]]\'\', \'\'[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-footed_ferret M. nigripes]]\'\', or \'\'[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppe_polecat M. Eversmanii]]\'\'
But really, if we want the \'\'least speculative\'\' take on the canon, I\'m not sure we can say anything totally definitive about either character except that they\'re both \"weasels\" in the general sense that they fall somewhere in the genus \'\'Mustela\'\'.
To put this in plain English, as would be preferable for the wiki text, we might merely describe either of them as being \"some sort of weasel\".
Though for Travis, I wouldn\'t be entirely opposed to taking the liberty of going a bit more specific and calling him \"some sort of polecat or ferret\".
Or even more simply (though maybe also more opaquely to those who don\'t know much about this), we might even just say \"some sort of polecat.\"[[note]]The \"black-footed ferret\" is also known as the \"American polecat\", so that would encompass them as well as European polecats. Domestic ferrets are encompassed as well due to being a subspecies of european polecat.[[/note]]
But definitely don\'t go so broad as to simply call either of them \"mustelids\", as the family \'\'Mustelidae\'\' is \'\'\'much\'\'\' broader than the genus \'\'Mustela\'\' and also includes things like otters, badgers, and wolverines.
Hmm... some of that may be too speculative due to the movie's relative ambiguity.
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Hmm... some of that may be too speculative due to the movie\'s relative ambiguity.
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Duke's coloring resembles either a least weasel or a stoat, but, as already discussed under AnimalsNotToScale, he is much too big. Although, a stoat still wouldn't be nearly ''as much'' of a stretch as a least weasel, size-wise. A polecat would be closer ''by far'' to being the correct size, but his coloration was not polecat-like at all. We seem to have already accepted that AnimalsNotToScale example on the basis that none of the species he looks like are as big as him, but his exact species is still ambiguous.
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Duke\'s coloring resembles either a least weasel or a stoat, but, as already discussed under AnimalsNotToScale, he is much too big. Although, a stoat still wouldn\'t be nearly \'\'as much\'\' of a stretch as a least weasel, size-wise. A polecat would be closer \'\'by far\'\' to being the correct size, but his coloration was not polecat-like at all. We seem to have already accepted that AnimalsNotToScale example on the basis that none of the species he looks like are as big as him, but his exact species is still ambiguous.
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As for Travis, well, I don't agree that he looks like a cheap recolor of Duke, regardless of how quickly that scene was made. But anyway...
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As for Travis, well, I don\'t agree that he looks like a cheap recolor of Duke, regardless of how quickly that scene was made. But anyway...
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Travis' coloration, as well as his not-very-tiny size relative to an unusually-big red fox of presumably similar age, seem to strongly indicate some sort of polecat or a ferret. The size part is muddied by Duke setting a precedent for not-to-scale weasels, but his coat coloration is still very distinctively polecat-like, strongly indicating that he's one of ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_polecat M. putorius]]'', ''[[M. nigripes]]'', or
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Travis\' coloration, as well as his not-very-tiny size relative to an unusually-big red fox of presumably similar age, seem to strongly indicate some sort of polecat or a ferret. The size part is muddied by Duke setting a precedent for not-to-scale weasels, but his coat coloration is still very distinctively polecat-like, strongly indicating that he\'s one of \'\'[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_polecat M. putorius]]\'\', \'\'[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-footed_ferret M. nigripes]]\'\', or \"[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppe_polecat M. Eversmanii]]\'\'
But really, if we want the \'\'least speculative\'\' take on the canon, I\'m not sure we can say anything totally definitive about either character except that they\'re both \"weasels\" in the general sense that they fall somewhere in the genus \'\'Mustela\'\'.
To put this in plain English, as would be preferable for the wiki text, we might merely describe either of them as being \"some sort of weasel\".
Though for Travis, I wouldn\'t be entirely opposed to taking the liberty of going a bit more specific and calling him \"some sort of polecat or ferret\".
Or even more simply (though maybe also more opaquely to those who don\'t know much about this), we might even just say \"some sort of polecat.\"[[note]]The \"black-footed ferret\" is also known as the \"American polecat\", so that would encompass them as well as European polecats. Domestic ferrets are encompassed as well due to being a subspecies of european polecat.[[/note]]
But definitely don\'t go so broad as to simply call either of them \"mustelids\", as the family \'\'Mustelidae\'\' is \'\'\'much\'\'\' broader than the genus \'\'Mustela\'\' and also includes things like otters, badgers, and wolverines.
Hmm... some of that may be too speculative due to the movie's relative ambiguity.
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Hmm... some of that may be too speculative due to the movie\'s relative ambiguity.
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Duke's coloring resembles either a least weasel or a stoat, but, as already discussed under AnimalsNotToScale, he is much too big. Although, a stoat still wouldn't be nearly ''as much'' of a stretch as a least weasel, size-wise. A polecat would be closer ''by far'' to being the correct size, but his coloration was not polecat-like at all. We seem to have already accepted that AnimalsNotToScale example on the basis that none of the species he looks like are as big as him, but his exact species is still ambiguous.
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Duke\'s coloring resembles either a least weasel or a stoat, but, as already discussed under AnimalsNotToScale, he is much too big. Although, a stoat still wouldn\'t be nearly \'\'as much\'\' of a stretch as a least weasel, size-wise. A polecat would be closer \'\'by far\'\' to being the correct size, but his coloration was not polecat-like at all. We seem to have already accepted that AnimalsNotToScale example on the basis that none of the species he looks like are as big as him, but his exact species is still ambiguous.
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As for Travis, well, I don't agree that he looks like a cheap recolor of Duke, regardless of how quickly that scene was made. But anyway...
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As for Travis, well, I don\'t agree that he looks like a cheap recolor of Duke, regardless of how quickly that scene was made. But anyway...
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Travis' coloration, as well as his not-very-tiny size relative to an unusually-big red fox of presumably similar age, seem to strongly indicate some sort of polecat or a ferret. The size part is muddied by Duke setting a precedent for not-to-scale weasels, but his coat coloration is still very distinctively polecat-like, strongly indicating that he's either ''M. putorius'' or ''M. nigripes''.
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Travis\' coloration, as well as his not-very-tiny size relative to an unusually-big red fox of presumably similar age, seem to strongly indicate some sort of polecat or a ferret. The size part is muddied by Duke setting a precedent for not-to-scale weasels, but his coat coloration is still very distinctively polecat-like, strongly indicating that he\'s one of \'\'[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_polecat M. putorius]]\'\', \'\'[[M. nigripes]]\'\', or \"[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppe_polecat M. Eversmanii]]\'\'
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But really, if we want the ''least speculative'' take on the canon, I'm not sure we can say anything totally definitive about either character except that they're both
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But really, if we want the \'\'least speculative\'\' take on the canon, I\'m not sure we can say anything totally definitive about either character except that they\'re both \"weasels\" in the general sense that they fall somewhere in the genus \'\'Mustela\'\'.
To put this in plain English, as would be preferable for the wiki text, we might merely describe either of them as being \"some sort of weasel\".
Though for Travis, I wouldn\'t be entirely opposed to taking the liberty of going a bit more specific and calling him \"some sort of polecat or ferret\".
Or even more simply (though maybe also more opaquely to those who don\'t know much about this), we might even just say \"some sort of polecat.\"[[note]]The \"black-footed ferret\" is also known as the \"American polecat\", so that would encompass them as well as European polecats. Domestic ferrets are encompassed as well due to being a subspecies of european polecat.[[/note]]
But definitely don\'t go so broad as to simply call either of them \"mustelids\", as the family \'\'Mustelidae\'\' is \'\'\'much\'\'\' broader than the genus \'\'Mustela\'\' and also includes things like otters, badgers, and wolverines.
Hmm... some of that may be too speculative due to the movie's relative ambiguity.
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Hmm... some of that may be too speculative due to the movie\'s relative ambiguity.
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Duke's coloring resembles either a least weasel or a stoat, but, as already discussed under AnimalsNotToScale, he is much too big. Although, a stoat still wouldn't be nearly ''as much'' of a stretch as a least weasel, size-wise. A polecat would be closer ''by far'' to being the correct size, but his coloration was not polecat-like at all. We seem to have already accepted that AnimalsNotToScale example on the basis that none of the species he looks like are as big as him, but his exact species is still ambiguous.
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Duke\'s coloring resembles either a least weasel or a stoat, but, as already discussed under AnimalsNotToScale, he is much too big. Although, a stoat still wouldn\'t be nearly \'\'as much\'\' of a stretch as a least weasel, size-wise. A polecat would be closer \'\'by far\'\' to being the correct size, but his coloration was not polecat-like at all. We seem to have already accepted that AnimalsNotToScale example on the basis that none of the species he looks like are as big as him, but his exact species is still ambiguous.
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As for Travis, well, I don't agree that he looks like a cheap recolor of Duke, regardless of how quickly that scene was made. But anyway...
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As for Travis, well, I don\'t agree that he looks like a cheap recolor of Duke, regardless of how quickly that scene was made. But anyway...
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Travis' coloration, as well as his not-very-tiny size relative to an unusually-big red fox of presumably similar age, seem to strongly indicate some sort of polecat or a ferret. The size part is muddied by Duke setting a precedent for not-to-scale weasels, but his coat coloration is still very distinctively polecat-like, strongly indicating that he's either ''M. putorius'' or ''M. nigripes''.
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Travis\' coloration, as well as his not-very-tiny size relative to an unusually-big red fox of presumably similar age, seem to strongly indicate some sort of polecat or a ferret. The size part is muddied by Duke setting a precedent for not-to-scale weasels, but his coat coloration is still very distinctively polecat-like, strongly indicating that he\'s either \'\'M. putorius\'\' or \'\'M. nigripes\'\'.
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But really, if we want the ''least speculative'' take on the canon, I'm not sure we can say anything totally definitive about either character except that they're both
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But really, if we want the \'\'least speculative\'\' take on the canon, I\'m not sure we can say anything totally definitive about either character except that they\'re both \"weasels\" in the general sense that they fall somewhere in the genus \'\'Mustela\'\'.
To put this in plain English, as would be preferable for the wiki text, we might merely describe either of them as being \"some sort of weasel\".
Though for Travis, I wouldn\'t be entirely opposed to taking the liberty of going a bit more specific and calling him \"some sort of polecat or ferret\".
Or even more simply (though maybe also more opaquely to those who don\'t know much about this), we might even just say \"some sort of polecat.\"[[note]]The \"black-footed ferret\" is also known as the \"American polecat\", so that would encompass them as well as European polecats. Domestic ferrets are encompassed as well due to being a subspecies of european polecat.[[/note]]
But definitely don\'t go so broad as to simply call either of them \"mustelids\", as the family \'\'Mustelidae\'\' is \'\'\'much\'\'\' broader than the genus \'\'Mustela\'\' and also includes things like otters, badgers, and wolverines.
Hmm... some of that may be too speculative due to the movie's relative ambiguity.
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Hmm... some of that may be too speculative due to the movie\'s relative ambiguity.
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Duke's coloring resembles either a least weasel or a stoat, but, as already discussed under AnimalsNotToScale, he is much too big. Although, a stoat still wouldn't be nearly ''as much'' of a stretch as a least weasel, size-wise. A polecat would be closer ''by far'' to being the correct size, but his coloration was not polecat-like at all. We seem to have already accepted that AnimalsNotToScale example on the basis that none of the species he looks like are as big as him, but his exact species is still ambiguous.
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Duke\'s coloring resembles either a least weasel or a stoat, but, as already discussed under AnimalsNotToScale, he is much too big. Although, a stoat still wouldn\'t be nearly \'\'as much\'\' of a stretch as a least weasel, size-wise. A polecat would be closer \'\'by far\'\' to being the correct size, but his coloration was not polecat-like at all. We seem to have already accepted that AnimalsNotToScale example on the basis that none of the species he looks like are as big as him, but his exact species is still ambiguous.
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As for Travis, well, I don't agree that he looks like a cheap recolor of Duke, regardless of how quickly that scene was made. But anyway...
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As for Travis, well, I don\'t agree that he looks like a cheap recolor of Duke, regardless of how quickly that scene was made. But anyway...
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Travis' coloration, as well as his not-very-tiny size relative to an unusually-big red fox of presumably similar age, seem to strongly indicate some sort of polecat or a ferret. The size part is muddied by Duke setting a precedent for not-to-scale weasels, but his coat coloration is still very distinctively polecat-like, strongly indicating that he's either ''M. putorius'' or ''M. nigripes''.
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Travis\' coloration, as well as his not-very-tiny size relative to an unusually-big red fox of presumably similar age, seem to strongly indicate some sort of polecat or a ferret. The size part is muddied by Duke setting a precedent for not-to-scale weasels, but his coat coloration is still very distinctively polecat-like, strongly indicating that he\'s either \'\'M. putorius\'\' or \'\'M. nigripes\'\'.
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But really, if we want the ''least speculative'' take on the canon, I'm not sure we can say anything totally definitive about either character except that they're both
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But really, if we want the \'\'least speculative\'\' take on the canon, I\'m not sure we can say anything totally definitive about either character except that they\'re both \"weasels\" in the general sense that they fall somewhere in the genus \'\'Mustela\'\'.
To put this in plain English, as would be preferable for the wiki text, we might merely describe either of them as being \"some sort of weasel\".
Though for Travis, I wouldn\'t be entirely opposed to taking the liberty of going a bit more specific and calling him \"some sort of polecat or ferret\".
Or even more simply (though maybe also more opaquely to those who don\'t know much about this), we might even just say \"some sort of polecat.\"[[note]]The \"black-footed ferret\" is also known as the \"American polecat\", so that would encompass them as well as European polecats. Domestic ferrets are encompassed as well due to being a subspecies of european polecat.[[/note]]
