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adult long-tailed weasel
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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
	has length 196-362 mm
	has part long, black-tipped tail that is half the length of its body
	is eaten by foxes, coyotes, wolves, domestic cats and dogs
	is sexually inactive during the winter
	is a kind of long-tailed weasel
	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
	weighs 72-267 g
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
weasel	has Family name Family Mustelidae
carnivore	has Order name Order Carnivora
	is carnivorous or omnivorous
mammal	is warm-blooded
	may catch rabies

Kinds of adult long-tailed weasel :

• adult female long-tailed weasel (8 facts)
• adult male long-tailed weasel (4 facts)

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