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Subject weigh call store have breeding season moult in have length reach sexual maturity by suckle kill by has part have distribution make nest of eat give birth in have name in French have picture live kill prey by have colour is a kind of kill for have habitat have scientific name depend on have Order name give birth to have apparent gestation period change colour in have Family name
adult ermine stoatextra food in lardersearly summerMarch and April and again in October and November   coyotes, badgers, foxes, hawks, owls, martens, wolverines, fishers, humanssmall mouthall of Canadafur, feathers, grass, leavesmice, shrews, hares, porcupines, birds, squirrels, fish, rats, voles, ground squirrels, pocket gophers, chipmunks, pikas, mountain beavers, snakes, frogs, earthworms herminein hollow log, under building, in burrow of mouse, ground squirrel, chipmunk or pocket gophergrabbing it around the shoulders and biting through the neck at the base of the skullbrown on top and white below in summer, white in winter, black tipped tailerminefur by humansboreal coniferous forests, mixed forests, tundra, meadow edges, shrubby river banks, lakeshoresMustella ermineamiceOrder Carnivora  spring and fall because of changing duration of daylightFamily Mustelidae
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adult female ermine45-74 gstoatextra food in lardersearly summerMarch and April and again in October and November215-255 mm2-3 months of agebabiescoyotes, badgers, foxes, hawks, owls, martens, wolverines, fishers, humans10 mammaeall of Canadafur, feathers, grass, leavesmice, shrews, hares, porcupines, birds, squirrels, fish, rats, voles, ground squirrels, pocket gophers, chipmunks, pikas, mountain beavers, snakes, frogs, earthwormsApril or Mayherminein hollow log, under building, in burrow of mouse, ground squirrel, chipmunk or pocket gophergrabbing it around the shoulders and biting through the neck at the base of the skullbrown on top and white below in summer, white in winter, black tipped tailfemale mammalfur by humansboreal coniferous forests, mixed forests, tundra, meadow edges, shrubby river banks, lakeshoresMustella ermineamiceOrder Carnivoralive babies10 monthsspring and fall because of changing duration of daylightFamily Mustelidae

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