Long-tailed Weasel Facts
Long-tailed Weasel (Mustela frenata)
What they look like: Weasels have a reddish-brown summer coat except for their yellowish-white belly.
Long-tailed Weasel
Relatives in same Genus
Ermine (M. erminea)
Black-footed Ferret (M. nigripes)
Least Weasel (M. nivalis)
American Mink (M. vison) ...
Long-tailed Weasel
Mustela frenata
The Long-tailed Weasel (Mustela frenata) is a widespread resident across almost all of the United States as well as much of Canada and Mexico. Despite its range, it can be hard to spot and is not often seen.
Long-tailed Weasel (Mustela frenata)
No photo of the Long-tailed Weasel available.
Long-tailed Weasel
Order Carnivora : Family Mustelidae : Mustela frenata Lichtenstein ...
Long-tailed weasels usually make their dens in the burrows of other animals such as chipmunks. However, they will use other suitable locations such as rock crevices, stumps and hollow logs for dens.
Long-tailed Weasel Behaviour
No observations regarding Long-tailed Weasel behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Long-tailed Weasels ...
Diet The long-tailed weasel is a carnivore. It has a very high rate of metabolism and eats about 40% of its body weight every day! Most of its diet is made up of small mammals like mice, voles, rabbits, gophers and chipmunks.
Long-tailed Weasel Mustela frenata Lichtenstein
Description: The long-tailed weasel is a medium-sized, long-bodied member of the genus. It can be distinguished by: 1) short legs, 2) relatively long tail about half its total length, ...
Long-tailed Weasels are voracious predators, foraging day and night for small vertebrates, and scavenging for carrion when necessary. In captivity, adults can consume an amount equal to one-third their own body weight in 24 hours.
Long-tailed weasels are found in temperate and tropical habitats in North and Central America. These habitats range from crop fields to small wooded areas to suburban areas. They are not found in deserts or thick, dense forests.
The Long-tailed Weasel, Mustela frenata, is found in nonaquatic habitats statewide. It is rich dark brown with a white underside, a long (14-18") body, long neck, and a long (6-7"), black-tipped tail. It has a pointed nose and small eyes.
Major predators include lynx (Lynx lynx), bobcats (L. rufus), fishers (Martes pennanti), American martens (M. americana), long-tailed weasels (Mustela frenata), minks (M. vison), foxes (Vulpes and Urocyon spp.), coyote (Canis latrans), ...
This kind of coat is very similar to the coat of the long-tailed weasel (Mustela frenata), a related animal of about the same size which also moults into white in the northern part of its range, and it is easy to confuse these kinds of weasels.
A resident landowner or tenant may take, without a permit, a coyote, beaver, mink, muskrat, long-tailed weasel, red fox, gray fox, opossum, skunk, or raccoon that is discovered damaging property; ...
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There are three species of weasels in Minnesota, the short-tailed weasel, the long-tailed weasel, and the least weasel. All belong to a family of mostly long, narrow "tube-shaped" animals in the family Mustelidae.
Identification ...
Known predators include ringneck snakes, common kingsnakes, deer mice, long-tailed weasels, domestic cats, California thrashers, American robins, and loggerhead shrikes.
Natural predators include the red-tailed hawk, the great blue heron, the common king snake (Lampropeltis getula californiae), yellow-bellied racer (Coluber constrictor mormon) and the largemouth bass; the long-tailed weasel may also be a significant ...
*** As of 1996, only five specimens of the Colombian weasel were known. Three of them were originally mis-labeled as the long-tailed weasel, Mustela frenata, before the Colombian weasel had been identified as a separate species.
Status and Trends ...
Large mammals in the Pine Barrens include white-tailed deer, coyotes, the rare bobcat, beavers and reclusive river otters. We also find red and gray gox, mink, long-tailed weasel, southern bog lemming, eight species of bats, as well as raccoon, ...
long-tailed weasel (Mustela frenata noveboracensis)
marsh rabbit (Sylvilagus palustris palustris)
marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris palustris)
masked shrew (Sorex cinereus fontinalis)
meadow jumping mouse (Zapus hudsonius americanus) ...
research, including some abstracts, on five such species of mammal: horses (Equus caballus), possums (Trichosurus vulpecula), stoats, short-tailed weasels or ermines (Mustela erminea), common or least weasels (Mustela nivalis), long-tailed weasels ...
Females breed when they are a year old, and have a litter of three after a 30-day gestation period. The young are independent about a month after birth. Predators include coyotes, long-tailed weasels, martens, and ermine.
 See also: Weasel, Coyote, Raccoon, Badger, Least Weasel
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