| adult least weasel | consumes 1 gram of food per hour which adds up to more than half the body weight of an adult least weasel per day |  |
| eats meadow voles, prairie voles, red-backed voles, deer mice, house mice, harvest mice, amphibians, insects | |
| has colour dark brown with white underparts in summer, white in winter | |
| has high metabolic rate | |
| has length 170-217 mm | |
| has range 0.8 hectares | |
| has part short legs | |
| has part short, stubby tail | |
| has part slender body | |
| hunts by scent | |
| is active all winter | |
| is nocturnal | |
| is a kind of least weasel | |
| kills by biting through the back of the neck of its prey | |
| lines burrow with fine grass or mouse fur | |
| makes sound shrill shriek | |
| reaches sexual maturity by 4 months | |
| seldom travels more than 100 yards from its home | |
| stores mouse carcasses in larder | |
| weighs 25-63.5 g | |
| least weasel | has distribution much of Canada except the Maritimes, southern Ontario and Quebec, coastal BC and the northeastern arctic tundra | |
| has habitat stubble fields, meadows, river banks, parklands, mixed forests | |
| has name in French belette pygmée | |
| has scientific name Mustela nivalis | |
| is the smallest carnivore in Canada | |
| is rare | |
| is eaten by long-tailed weasels, owls, feral house cats | |
| lives in mouse, pocket gopher or mole burrow | |
| 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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