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long-tailed weasel comparison table |
Subject | meet | have breeding season | is a kind of | have distribution | have scientific name | weigh | eat | have length | has part | have name in French | be eaten by | open eyes at | have colour | wean by | have habitat | moult during | be sexually inactive during |
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long-tailed weasel | weasel | southern Canada | Mustela frenata | belette à longue queue | open grassland, aspen parklands, river bottom lands | ||||||||||||
adult long-tailed weasel | other adult long-tailed weasels except during the breeding season | July and August | long-tailed weasel | southern Canada | Mustela frenata | 72-267 g | 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 | 196-362 mm | long, black-tipped tail that is half the length of its body | belette à longue queue | foxes, coyotes, wolves, domestic cats and dogs | cinnamon brown above and buff coloured below in summer, white in winter, black tipped tail | open grassland, aspen parklands, river bottom lands | October to December, and February to April caused by changing length of daylight | the winter | ||
baby long-tailed weasel | long-tailed weasel | southern Canada | Mustela frenata | 3.1 g at one day old | belette à longue queue | 36-37 days | pink, with sparse white hairs at birth | 3 and a half weeks | open grassland, aspen parklands, river bottom lands |
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