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weasel      carnivore                   
mink  3 - 8.5 mink per square km of good habitat fur weaselden under the roots of trees, along stream banks, occasionally in beaver or muskrat lodgesmost of Canada south of the treeline except Newfoundland, Anticosti Island and the Queen Charlotte Islands Mustela vison      vison d'Amérique     great horned owls, bobcats, red foxes, coyotes, wolves, black bears 
adult mink February to April3 - 8.5 mink per square km of good habitat furcooing, screams, hissesminkden under the roots of trees, along stream banks, occasionally in beaver or muskrat lodgesmost of Canada south of the treeline except Newfoundland, Anticosti Island and the Queen Charlotte Islands Mustela vison  0.79-2.31 kgmeadow voles, muskrats, shrews, cottontail rabbits, fish, frogs, salamanders, crayfish, insects, birds, earthworms420-620 mmsmall earsvison d'Amériquebold, ferocious and untamable all winterbrown to almost black, paler on the belly great horned owls, bobcats, red foxes, coyotes, wolves, black bears 
baby mink5-6 weeks 3 - 8.5 mink per square km of good habitat fur minkden under the roots of trees, along stream banks, occasionally in beaver or muskrat lodgesmost of Canada south of the treeline except Newfoundland, Anticosti Island and the Queen Charlotte Islands Mustela vison at birth    vison d'Amérique 5 weeks pink at birthfallgreat horned owls, bobcats, red foxes, coyotes, wolves, black bearsat birth

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