| adult female long-tailed weasel | gives birth in March or April |  |
| has average number of babies 3-9 | |
| has gestation period 220-337 days | |
| has length 306-362 mm | |
| has part four pairs of mammae | |
| is a kind of adult long-tailed weasel | |
| is a kind of female mammal | |
| weighs 72-126 g | |
| adult long-tailed weasel | eats meadow voles, deer mice, chipmunks, pocket gophers, ground squirrels, pikas, prairie dogs, cottontail rabbits, wood rats, red squirrels, harvest mice, house mice, Norway rats, roof rats, shrews, least weasels, birds, chickens, insects, snakes, berries | |
| has breeding season July and August | |
| has colour cinnamon brown above and buff coloured below in summer, white in winter, black tipped tail | |
| is eaten by foxes, coyotes, wolves, domestic cats and dogs | |
| is sexually inactive during the winter | |
| moults during October to December, and February to April caused by changing length of daylight | |
| seldom meets other adult long-tailed weasels except during the breeding season | |
| female mammal | gives birth to live babies | |
| suckles babies | |
| long-tailed weasel | has distribution southern Canada | |
| has habitat open grassland, aspen parklands, river bottom lands | |
| has name in French belette à longue queue | |
| has scientific name Mustela frenata | |
| mammal | is warm-blooded | |
| may catch rabies | |
| weasel | has Family name Family Mustelidae | |
| carnivore | has Order name Order Carnivora | |
| is carnivorous or omnivorous | |
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