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adult least weasel | | biting through the back of the neck of its prey | the smallest carnivore in Canada | Order Carnivora | shrill shriek | least weasel | mouse carcasses in larder | 4 months | mouse, pocket gopher or mole burrow | much of Canada except the Maritimes, southern Ontario and Quebec, coastal BC and the northeastern arctic tundra | Mustela nivalis | 25-63.5 g | 1 gram of food per hour which adds up to more than half the body weight of an adult least weasel per day | more than 100 yards from its home | meadow voles, prairie voles, red-backed voles, deer mice, house mice, harvest mice, amphibians, insects | fine grass or mouse fur | 170-217 mm | belette pygmée | slender body | 0.8 hectares | all winter | dark brown with white underparts in summer, white in winter | scent | stubble fields, meadows, river banks, parklands, mixed forests | long-tailed weasels, owls, feral house cats | Family Mustelidae |
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adult male least weasel | February to November | biting through the back of the neck of its prey | the smallest carnivore in Canada | Order Carnivora | shrill shriek | male mammal | mouse carcasses in larder | 4 months | mouse, pocket gopher or mole burrow | much of Canada except the Maritimes, southern Ontario and Quebec, coastal BC and the northeastern arctic tundra | Mustela nivalis | 34.5-63.5 g | 1 gram of food per hour which adds up to more than half the body weight of an adult least weasel per day | more than 100 yards from its home | meadow voles, prairie voles, red-backed voles, deer mice, house mice, harvest mice, amphibians, insects | fine grass or mouse fur | 183-217 mm | belette pygmée | | 0.8 hectares | all winter | dark brown with white underparts in summer, white in winter | scent | stubble fields, meadows, river banks, parklands, mixed forests | long-tailed weasels, owls, feral house cats | Family Mustelidae |