adult female least weasel | gives birth to 2 or more litters per year | |
has average number of babies 3-10 | |
has gestation period 35-37 days | |
has length 170-181 mm | |
is in heat for 4 days | |
is a kind of adult least weasel | |
is a kind of female mammal | |
weighs 25-58 g | |
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 range 0.8 hectares | |
hunts by scent | |
is active all winter | |
is nocturnal | |
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 | |
female mammal | suckles babies | |
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 | |
mammal | is warm-blooded | |
may catch rabies | |
weasel | has Family name Family Mustelidae | |
carnivore | has Order name Order Carnivora | |
is carnivorous or omnivorous | |