Well, how many of you watched the Wild Kingdoms Meercats secret world? I found out that they might have a ferrety appearance but that is where the similarity stops dead in its tracks. These animals were so much more fascinating than I ever dreamed. They were NOTHING like I expected. And to see it through the photographers admiring eyes was just priceless. I have concluded.... that God must drink. Yes. Drink heavily. At some point, while he was lolling around on his cloud up there, he got the crazy idea that if he held a monkey on one hand and a polecat in another hand, then slammed them together.... it would make an interesting animal. Chaw. Surely he spinkled something else in there to spice it up, but I'm not sure what. These animals had a social structure that, to me, was more like a primates than any sort of other vivarid in their family or anything like any mustelid that they might resemble. Its funny, because as I said they almost look ferrety, but surely do not act like them in any sort of way. Yet when you watch a wolverine or somethign that looks nothing like a ferret, you see many behavioral similarities... even in their play. Interesting. I don't think that I'll think of anything in the ferret family ever, ever again when I see these animals, that's for sure. It really changed how I percieve them. :) Wolfy Wolfy's site has MOVED to: http://wolfysluv.jacksnet.com/ [Posted in FML issue 4085]