| adult ermine | can climb |  |
| can swim | |
| changes colour in spring and fall because of changing duration of daylight | |
| eats mice, shrews, hares, porcupines, birds, squirrels, fish, rats, voles, ground squirrels, pocket gophers, chipmunks, pikas, mountain beavers, snakes, frogs, earthworms | |
| has breeding season early summer | |
| has colour brown on top and white below in summer, white in winter, black tipped tail | |
| has part anal scent glands | |
| has part long, slender body | |
| has part short, oval ears | |
| has part small mouth | |
| is nocturnal | |
| is a kind of ermine | |
| kills prey by grabbing it around the shoulders and biting through the neck at the base of the skull | |
| moults in March and April and again in October and November | |
| stores extra food in larders | |
| ermine | depends on mice | |
| has distribution all of Canada | |
| has habitat boreal coniferous forests, mixed forests, tundra, meadow edges, shrubby river banks, lakeshores | |
| has name in French hermine | |
has picture  | |
| has scientific name Mustella erminea | |
| is curious | |
| is also called stoat | |
| is killed by coyotes, badgers, foxes, hawks, owls, martens, wolverines, fishers, humans | |
| is killed for fur by humans | |
| lives in hollow log, under building, in burrow of mouse, ground squirrel, chipmunk or pocket gopher | |
| makes nest of fur, feathers, grass, leaves | |
| weasel | has Family name Family Mustelidae | |
| carnivore | has Order name Order Carnivora | |
| is carnivorous or omnivorous | |
| mammal | is warm-blooded | |
| may catch rabies | |
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