Martes flavigula

The yellow-throated marten is noted for being aptly named, however I think it's named incorrectly. Most patterned individuals in photographs seem to be yellow-shirted rather than yellow throated. So I will call them yellow-shirted martens because I can change these things.

This marten was mostly under the radar until some videos came out of it hunting monkeys. Its hunting style seems interesting. They attack monkeys that are on the ground, at least by the time the humans notice the hunt. Teasing and biting, the monkey knows it's a threat, but doesn't seem to realize it's a predator. The yellow-shirted marten eventually gets a spinal shot. But it seems that their teeth aren't strong enough to kill it by the back of the neck of monkeys in one bite, and rather severely injure, partially paralyzing it. The battle continues on as they bite and tear at a struggling victim until eventually they drag it away or it dies and they eat it.

They hunt in pairs or small groups, but scientists still aren't sure whether packs mostly consist of mated pairs, siblings, parents and offspring, etc. Due to hunting in packs, unlike the more independent mustelids, they are able to attack larger prey. However from what I've seen in videos they aren't fully cooperative, with one leading the attack while the others support it here and there. Nevertheless it seems to work, if slowly (in part due to the weasel dance). They have been seen to kill langurs and macaques. All of these sources come from Corbett National Park in India. I don't know if monkey killing is exclusive to the packs in that area or if it extends in the entire population up in Russia and Korea.

Since then, there have been a few Youtube videos that have noted yellow-shirted martens and general martens' "supreme" power in hunting animals larger than themselves. Opportunistic like other mustelids, they also hunt the young of larger animals, such as wildcats, pandas, and deer. They also kill smaller adult animals that are still larger than them, like muntjacs.

I can't find much information of them in television or comics now, but one comic did portray the above situation. You wouldn't believe me, but this is one of the few things I've found noting mustelid adorableness. There also seems to be a Yu-Gi-Oh card called Moonlight Yellow Marten. It's the same in the original Japanese. I don't know if it's based off of this marten or not, but it seems like it could be. I'm not sure where the lunar association comes from. It's also one of the cringeyish official cards I've ever seen. I didn't even think it was real at first. It has a fox tail instead of a marten's. But the ears and paws seem to represent it. But the ears are kinda more like bear ears.

A yellow-shirted marten made a tiny section of some news websites due to appearing wild at a Taiwanese farm, as a rare and beautiful animal.

A source says that they aren't found in North American zoos anymore. I'm not sure if that's true or not. But I have found them (via website) to be in the Exmoor Zoo of the UK; the Jerusalem Zoo of Israel; the Dresden Zoo, Tierpark Berlin, Tiergarten Nurnberg of Germany; The Leningrad Zoo, Yekaterinburg Zoo, Chelyabinsk Zoo, Perm Zoo, Novosibirsk Zoo, and Roev Ruchey Zoo of Russia, Natura Artis Magistra of The Netherlands, Wroclaw Zoo and Poznan New Zoo of Poland, and Seoul Grand Park Zoo of South Korea.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRQwozQC\_KY
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFG4LL4iRfA
3. ↑ https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.3398
4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxJsmWjeCDc
5. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UghEILr6FGc
6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrAb-36X-FA&t=643s
7. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUGQNAcBBaA
8. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuhFxBh5E5o
9. ↑ https://www.greenhumour.com/2019/07/meet-yellow-throated-marten.html
10. ↑ https://translate.google.com/?sl=ja&tl=en&text=%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%86%E3%83%B3&op=translate
11. ↑ https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Lunalight\_Yellow\_Marten
12. ↑ https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/230373/yugioh-legendary-duelists-season-2-lunalight-yellow-marten?country=US&utm\_campaign=18149059168&utm\_source=google&utm\_medium=cpc&utm\_content=&utm\_term=&adgroupid=&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIn9m-kemt\_wIVty3UAR0quwfFEAQYASABEgKivPD\_BwE&Language=English
13. ↑ https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/world/article275500851.html
14. ↑ https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article275500851.html
15. ↑ https://www.zoochat.com/community/media/yellow-throated-marten-at-best-02-06-12.190787/
16. ↑ https://www.exmoorzoo.co.uk/animals/yellow-throated-marten
17. ↑ https://www.jerusalemzoo.org/animals-en/yellow-throated-marten
18. ↑ https://www.zoo-dresden.de/en/animal/yellow-throated-marten/
19. ↑ https://www.deviantart.com/ssjgarfield/art/Yellow-throated-marten-214758166
20. ↑ https://zooinstitutes.com/animals/yellow-throated-marten-1032/