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adult male least weasel comparison table
Subject have breeding season kill by be have Order name make sound is a kind of store reach sexual maturity by live in have distribution have scientific name weigh consume travel eat line burrow with have length have name in French has part have range be active have colour hunt by have habitat eat by have Family name
adult least weasel biting through the back of the neck of its preythe smallest carnivore in CanadaOrder Carnivorashrill shriekleast weaselmouse carcasses in larder4 monthsmouse, pocket gopher or mole burrowmuch of Canada except the Maritimes, southern Ontario and Quebec, coastal BC and the northeastern arctic tundraMustela nivalis25-63.5 g1 gram of food per hour which adds up to more than half the body weight of an adult least weasel per daymore than 100 yards from its homemeadow voles, prairie voles, red-backed voles, deer mice, house mice, harvest mice, amphibians, insectsfine grass or mouse fur170-217 mmbelette pygméeslender body0.8 hectaresall winterdark brown with white underparts in summer, white in winterscentstubble fields, meadows, river banks, parklands, mixed forestslong-tailed weasels, owls, feral house catsFamily Mustelidae
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adult male least weaselFebruary to Novemberbiting through the back of the neck of its preythe smallest carnivore in CanadaOrder Carnivorashrill shriekmale mammalmouse carcasses in larder4 monthsmouse, pocket gopher or mole burrowmuch of Canada except the Maritimes, southern Ontario and Quebec, coastal BC and the northeastern arctic tundraMustela nivalis34.5-63.5 g1 gram of food per hour which adds up to more than half the body weight of an adult least weasel per daymore than 100 yards from its homemeadow voles, prairie voles, red-backed voles, deer mice, house mice, harvest mice, amphibians, insectsfine grass or mouse fur183-217 mmbelette pygmée 0.8 hectaresall winterdark brown with white underparts in summer, white in winterscentstubble fields, meadows, river banks, parklands, mixed forestslong-tailed weasels, owls, feral house catsFamily Mustelidae

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