Long-tailed Weasel

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 Mustela frenata These slim little predators hunt a variety of prey, from rabbits and chickens to mice and frogs.

Long-tailed Weasel (Mustela frenata) No photo of the Long-tailed Weasel available.

LONG-TAILED WEASEL FACTS Description Long-tail weasels have a long slender body, short legs and a small, narrow head with long whiskers. The fur is cinnamon brown above and yellowish-white underneath.

Long-tailed Weasel Order Carnivora : Family Mustelidae : Mustela frenata Lichtenstein ...

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.

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) Species Code: MUFR Description: Weasels have a reddish-brown summer coat except for a yellowish-white belly. They shed their summer coats during early fall and replace them with lighter colored winter coats.

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 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 have adapted well to habitat changes brought on by man. They can be found in a variety of habitats including woodlands, agricultural fields, bottomland waterways, and brushy areas.

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.

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Family Mustelidae Long-tailed weasel Mustela frenata perda Grison Galictis vittata canaster Tayra Eira barbara senex ...

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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Species Mustela frenata (long-tailed weasel) Species Mustela itatsi (Japanese weasel) Species Mustela kathiah (yellow-bellied weasel) ...

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 ...

See also: Weasel, Coyote, Raccoon, Badger, Least Weasel