| adult fisher | can swim |  |
| eats red squirrels, flying squirrels, re-backed voles, snowshoe hares, shrews, porcupines, deer mice, mink, muskrat, carrion, birds, insects, fruit | |
| has breeding season March and April | |
| has colour dark brown or black with grizzled grey mantle | |
| has range 16 km in diameter | |
| has part broad head | |
| has part long, bushy tail | |
| has part short, rounded ears | |
| has part slender body | |
| hunts on the ground | |
| is solitary | |
| is a kind of fisher | |
| reaches sexual maturity by 2 years | |
| travels along regular hunting circuits up to 97 km in length | |
| fisher | has habitat climax coniferous forest near water | |
| has name in French pékan | |
| has scientific name Martes pennanti | |
| is secretive | |
| is killed by humans | |
| lives in den in hollow tree or log, rock crevice, brush pile | |
| 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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