teledu

Updated: May 25, 2025

Indeed, if we regard as weasels the various carnivorous quadrupeds of the glutton and badger family, which have been described elsewhere in these sketches including the strange Teledu or Stinkard of Java, the Helietis of India and China, the Taira and Grison of Brazil, the Ratel or honey badger of Africa, the Zorille of the Cape, the Zorilla or Maikel of Patagonia, the Sand bear of India, and the numerous varieties of the celebrated Polecat, or Skunk, of North and South America we may well say that there are weasels, or their representatives, in every hole and corner of the earth.

Mayne Reid - Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found: A Book of Zoology for Boys

All these animals the Javanese teledu excepted have long tails; some of them, in fact, being very long and very bushy a characteristic altogether wanting to the bears, that can hardly be said to have tails at all.

Mayne Reid - Bruin: The Grand Bear Hunt