Despite our attempts at solitude, some grunts heralded visitors.
Despite our attempts at solitude, some grunts heralded visitors.
Anyone know who the second guy is?
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I’m Kee Hinckley (he/his). That’s my wife Mollie Pepper on the right. I’m a senior software architect at TiVo Corp (I get the metadata from point A to point B) with a BA in Anthropology. Mollie’s a sociologist with a couple Masters and a PhD on the way; she specializes in borders, gender, and violence. I have two kickass daughters. Shireen Hinckley is a film editor and documentarian currently working on a movie on refugee resettlement, Home Is Where the War Is. Shadi Fotouhi is a QA automation expert at Wayfair (and formerly at robotics firm Jibo), and an amazing artist.
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Looks a little like a stoat.
Wing Kearns I did notice the a Wind in the Willows likeness.
Looks like it’s actually a rather plump mongoose.
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Mongoose.
Definitely a mongoose. I’ve got a family of them running around my neighborhood, different color, same face.
That’s such a typically Hawaiian set of pictures.
It looks like a fisher to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_(animal)
Fisher is much bigger, bulkier, with longer legs and typically a dark brown pelt rather than the yellow fur of the mongoose. And it’s a completely unrelated branch of the carnivores. Mongooses are part of the feline branch, weasels and fishers are part of the canine branch.
Plus, fishers are not found in Hawaii, while mongooses are all over the bloody place.
http://cdn1.arkive.org/media/5D/5DC685B8-F149-4E91-BCFD-A633FC110762/Presentation.Large/Fisher-in-pine-tree.jpg
That fellow is so a fisher.
http://www.burkemuseum.org/research-and-collections/mammalogy/collections/mamwash/carnivora.php#Fisher
https://www.google.com/search?q=mongoose++in+hawaii&prmd=ivsn&source=lnms&tbm=isch
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fisher_area.png
Yeah, it’s definitely a mongoose, but having only stoats in my neck of the wood it’s why I thought stoat.
The salt and pepper fur of the mongoose is distinctive and not found in any mustelid.
The parallel evolution of the viverrids in feloidia and the mustelids in canoidea is really remarkable.
Fishers are native to Washington State. That is why you can find them listed on the website of the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture located within the University of Washington. The mongoose is not a native, but was introduced onto some islands to control rodent and/or rabbit populations. So, the creature could potentially be either one. My PhD is not in biology, so I would hesitate to make a definitive statement. I would also hesitate taking seriously the speculations of others without appropriate credentials.
Katherine Phelps The part you may be missing right now is that I’m currently sitting in the Hawaiian rain forest. Sorry. I’ve been bouncing around a lot!
AH! My apologies then! It has been 35C for the last couple days.