Wolverine (Gulo gulo)

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(06-08-2018, 12:54 PM)Spalea Wrote: You're biased. At first you showed a skeleton (you seem  unable to judge an animal's morphology according to his skeleton) after an animal, living under cold climate, in his summer coat. You're simply not coherent.

 
By saying that the skeleton was rather gracile, I was implying that it looks less robust than other mustelids, given the animal's size; seemingly annoyed, you replied: that no, because when YOU see it, we (?) clearly see a rather stocky animal, that I just needed to imagine it covered with fur, and that the neck, humerus and femurs were thick. You claim those bones are thick, but compared to whose?
Because other mustelids have thicker bones in proportion. Then I said that I don't have to imagine the skeleton covered in fur, because we know the live appearance of the animal, and I gave the example of the snow leopard, which looks compact when it really isn't, like the wolverine. To that you replied that we don't have the same definitions of gracile and stocky, because according to your logic, hair is what makes an animal stocky... So I put a pic of a wolverine in summer, when its coat is shorter and more revealing of the true proportions of the animal, to which you simply straw-manned me, claiming that I'm biased, incoherent and "unable to judge an animal's morphology according to his skeleton", as if we were discussing a paleontological reconstruction, well excuse me.
 
Sorry for not following the narrative that wolverines are super weasels on steroids that eat steel... Reply