Talk:Sable

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A Sable is also an Antelope with backward curved horns. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.9.18.146 (talk) 17:43, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

I suggest removing Cedar

″Sables inhabit dense forests dominated by spruce, pine, larch, CEDAR, and birch″ - I suggest removing Cedar from the list because the tree does not occur in Siberia where you find Sable. The mistake probably comes from a Russian source, in Russian Pinus sibericus is often colloquially called "cedar". Marina sparrow (talk) 20:41, 22 June 2021 (UTC)Marina Sparrow

References

"sables in literature and media"

Should we add a section on "sables in literature and media"? We might want to mention the movie Gorky Park.Interlingua 03:56, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

I came to this page having just read Gorky Park. That book (and film) is all about the Russian sables in the USSR. It says the specific kind of sable referred to in the book (Barguzhinsky Sable) is the best fur in the world, better than other sables, and present nowhere else. So much so that a huge and complex plot is created around sable smuggling. It does need including in the article. I know nothing about furs. A quick Google search says Barguzhinsky sable coats and jackets cost about €20,000 to €40,000 and come in a variety of shades of brown, quite unlike the black as described in the book. SandJ-on-WP (talk) 10:14, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Reference 7 doesn't appear to describe subspecies?

Source describes "The overall color may vary individually and regionally from a sand-yellow to brown-black" with no reference to coat color being subspecies-related. No other mention of physical characteristic differences between individual/region is mentioned, so the text doesn't seem to be implying there are different subspecies but just color varients? Loomingpine (talk) 03:07, 26 December 2024 (UTC)