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adult female least weasel comparison table
Subject weigh store have range have gestation period hunt by have length eat by suckle reach sexual maturity by kill by has part have distribution eat be in heat for consume have name in French live in line burrow with be active have colour is a kind of make sound have habitat travel have scientific name have Order name give birth to be have Family name
adult least weasel25-63.5 gmouse carcasses in larder0.8 hectares scent170-217 mmlong-tailed weasels, owls, feral house cats 4 monthsbiting through the back of the neck of its preyslender bodymuch of Canada except the Maritimes, southern Ontario and Quebec, coastal BC and the northeastern arctic tundrameadow voles, prairie voles, red-backed voles, deer mice, house mice, harvest mice, amphibians, insects 1 gram of food per hour which adds up to more than half the body weight of an adult least weasel per daybelette pygméemouse, pocket gopher or mole burrowfine grass or mouse furall winterdark brown with white underparts in summer, white in winterleast weaselshrill shriekstubble fields, meadows, river banks, parklands, mixed forestsmore than 100 yards from its homeMustela nivalisOrder Carnivora the smallest carnivore in CanadaFamily Mustelidae
female mammal       babies            mammal     live babies  
adult female least weasel25-58 gmouse carcasses in larder0.8 hectares35-37 daysscent170-181 mmlong-tailed weasels, owls, feral house catsbabies4 monthsbiting through the back of the neck of its prey much of Canada except the Maritimes, southern Ontario and Quebec, coastal BC and the northeastern arctic tundrameadow voles, prairie voles, red-backed voles, deer mice, house mice, harvest mice, amphibians, insects4 days1 gram of food per hour which adds up to more than half the body weight of an adult least weasel per daybelette pygméemouse, pocket gopher or mole burrowfine grass or mouse furall winterdark brown with white underparts in summer, white in winterfemale mammalshrill shriekstubble fields, meadows, river banks, parklands, mixed forestsmore than 100 yards from its homeMustela nivalisOrder Carnivora2 or more litters per yearthe smallest carnivore in CanadaFamily Mustelidae

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