where can weasels be found?
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- While weasels prefer to live near water in abandoned animal burrows or hollow trees, the pests can adapt to a wide variety of conditions. In fact, weasels live across the U.S. in every climate zone and, with the exception of Antarctica and Australia, can be found around the globe.
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- Three species of weasels are typically found in the United States: the long-tailed, short-tailed, and least weasel. At under 8 inches in length, the least weasel is the world’s smallest carnivorous mammal, while the long-tailed weasel may grow up to 24 inches long.
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Mustela frenata General description: Weasels are small, elongated predators that are brown in the summer, but that turn white in the winter. The short-tailed and long-tailed weasels have a black-tipped tail, while the least weasel is completely white.
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Critter Catalog The tail length is about 35% of the total body length, ranging from 42mm to 120mm. Ermine have the typical weasel form: long body, short legs, long neck supporting a triangular head, slightly protruding round ears, bright black eyes, and long whiskers. Their short, moderately fine fur is white in the winter and the tip of the tail is black.
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Fishers and Martens: Weasels of the Trees Fishers and Martens: Weasels of the Trees. This is the fourth in a series of articles on the nine members of the weasel family that are found in Michigan. More mustelids will be featured in future issues. The mustelids (weasel family) of Michigan include species that occupy a wide variety of habitats.
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River Otter River Otters are mammals that are relatives of the stoats, weasels, mink, badgers and wolverines. These groups of mammals are known as Mustelids. The Mustelids all have one thing in common, they all have scent glands that they use to mark off their territory. In the wild they live less than 10 years; in captivity they live 10 - 15 years. Range/Habitat: River otters are found along rivers, streams, and lakes and also in estuaries, coastal bogs, and large marine waterways such as Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
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- The weasel is generally depicted as a long, thin animal. British Library, Royal MS 2 B. vii (f. 112v) uses two consecutive scenes to show weasels mating through the mouth and giving birth through the ear.
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Weasel Yes, Ferrets are in the Weasel family. Weasels are mammals in the genus Mustela of the Mustelidae family. In technical discourse, however, as in American usage, the term weas … el can refer to any member of the genus, or to the genus as a whole.
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- Striped skunks are native to North America, and can be found in Northern Mexico, throughout the United States, and as far north as Central Canada.Other species of skunks, such as the spotted skunk and the hog-nosed skunk, can be found further south, ranging from Canada to Central and South America.Stink badgers, which resemble the hog-nosed skunk, are strictly found in the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia.ther species of skunks, such as the spotted skunk and the hog-nosed skunk, can be found further south, ranging from Canada to Central and South America. Stink badgers, which resemble the hog-nosed skunk, are strictly found in the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
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- polecat, carnivorous mammal of the weasel family. The name refers especially to the common Old World polecat, Mustela putorius, found in wooded areas of N Eurasia and N Africa. Similar to weasels, but larger and with longer fur, polecats grow to nearly 2 ft (60 cm) long, including the 6-in. (15-cm) tail.
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maintenance noun. 1  The act of maintaining or the state of being maintained: nutrients essential to the maintenance of good health. 2  The work of keeping something in proper condition; upkeep: car maintenance. 3  a. Provision of support or livelihood: took over the maintenance of her family.
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Mustela frenata For their small size, weasels can defend themselves very well, and their brown-in-summer and white-in-winter camouflage helps them to both kill prey, and avoid being prey. The weasel's main predators are other species of weasels, small hawks and owls, and its bigger cousin, the mink. Habitat and range All three species can be found state-wide, but the least weasel is the least abundant, especially in northeastern Minnesota.
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North American river otter The North American river otter is found throughout North America, inhabiting inland waterways and coastal areas in Canada, the Pacific Northwest, the Atlantic states, and the Gulf of Mexico. River otters also currently inhabit coastal regions throughout the United States and Canada.ike other otters, the North American river otter lives in a holt, or den, constructed in the burrows of other animals, or in natural hollows, such as under a log or in river banks.
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Weasel Male and Female stoats and weasels are referred to as a dog and a bitch respectively. The young are called kittens or kits. Collective nouns for a group of weasels include boogle, gang, pack and confusion. The Weasel pre-breeding season population is estimated to be 450,000 adults.
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Coniferous Forest 1 The wolverine is the largest member of the weasel family. 2  The powerful jaws and large teeth of the wolverine are able to demolish frozen carrion and bones. 3  The wolverine has a lumbering gait as its head and tail are lower than its arched back.  The wolverine can be found in alpine tundra and northern taiga habitats.
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- Float along and find out! They’re Wet Weasels Sea otters are members of the weasel family. They live along the coasts of the northern Pacific Ocean (see the map above). Two kinds of sea otters live in the United States: the California, or southern, sea otter and the Alaskan, or northern, sea otter.They Float. Right at home in the water—that’s a sea otter.hey live along the coasts of the northern Pacific Ocean (see the map above). Two kinds of sea otters live in the United States: the California, or southern, sea otter and the Alaskan, or northern, sea otter. They Float. Right at home in the water—that’s a sea otter.
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Long-tailed weasel The long-tailed weasel's ancestors were larger than the current form, and underwent a reduction in size to exploit the new food source. The long-tailed weasel arose in North America 2 million years ago, shortly before the stoat evolved as its mirror image in Eurasia.
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weasel weasel. (vertebrate zoology). The common name for at least 12 species of small, slim carnivores which belong to the family Mustelidae and which have a reddish-brown coat with whitish underparts; species in the northern regions have white fur during the winter and are called ermine.
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- New Hampshire Weasels. New Hampshire has weasels in abundance. In fact, there are six members of the mustelidae, or weasel family. They include (from smallest to largest): ermine (also known as the short-tailed weasel), long-tailed weasel, pine marten, mink, fisher and river otter.
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Least weasel Breeding takes place in the spring and summer, and there is a single litter of about six kits which are reared exclusively by the female. Due to its small size and fierce nature, the least weasel plays an important part in the mythology and legend of various cultures.
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Pine Marten Pine martens live in mature, dense conifer forests in northern Wisconsin. Click here to see a map of their range in Wisconsin. They can be found in woods with northern white cedar, balsam fir, spruce and eastern hemlock, especially where trees have fallen.ine martens have long, bushy tails, one-third the length of their body. Fishers live in similar habitat, have similar tracks and are darker in color than pine martens. Stone martens are non-native species and are also about the size of the male pine marten.
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weasel weasels. 1  1 or plural weasel : any of various small slender active carnivorous mammals (genus Mustela of the family Mustelidae, the weasel family) that are able to prey on animals (such as rabbits) larger than themselves, are mostly brown with white or yellowish underparts, and in northern forms turn white in winter — compare ermine 1a.
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Long-tailed Weasel  ( Mustela frenataEmmons) The range, habitat preference, and relative abundance of the long-tailed weasel in the Adirondack Park are not well known. This species is a likely resident of all terrestrial habitats, perhaps at all elevations, but is probably least abundant at elevations above 610 m (2000 ft) and in dense forest.
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- Striped skunks are native to North America, and can be found in Northern Mexico, throughout the United States, and as far north as Central Canada.Other species of skunks, such as the spotted skunk and the hog-nosed skunk, can be found further south, ranging from Canada to Central and South America.Stink badgers, which resemble the hog-nosed skunk, are strictly found in the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia.ther aboveground places a skunk will call home are hollow logs, woodpiles, or in brushes. It is also common for skunks to build their homes underneath porches, houses, garages, and buildings, as they have a high tolerance for humans.
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Weasel Weasels vary in length from 173 to 217 mm (6.8 to 8.5 in), females being smaller than the males, and usually have red or brown upper coats and white bellies; some populations of some species moult to a wholly white coat in winter. They have long, slender bodies, which enable them to follow their prey into burrows.
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- The North American river otter (Lontra canadensis) is a shy, if playful, weasel topping out at 30 pounds and five feet from head to tail. Otters are carnivores, eating mainly fish, crayfish, and frogs.