Weasels are often difficult to capture on camera, making it hard for conservationists to track their population numbers. This ...

If you’ve ever seen both a ferret and a weasel, you’ll agree that it can be pretty difficult to spot the difference between ...

This is the only other member of the weasel family in the Adirondacks to develop a white coat ... of the long-tailed weasel in the Adirondack Park are not well known. This species is a likely resident ...

This shy, plush-furred member of the weasel family inhabits mature forests and munches on everything ... logging and development have decimated the large blocks of forest the species needs to thrive.

Between 2022 and 2023, researchers placed 486 camera traps in sites across the central and eastern United States where they knew weasels lived.

When monitoring the health of mammal populations, scientists often use camera traps to observe the animals in their habitats.

there are animals known as “Lazarus species,” those believed lost to extinction that seem, miraculously, to rise again. Mustela nigripes, a member of the weasel family, was believed to have ...

weasels kill their victims with a bite to the base of the skull, and then feast on the contents. Mouse brain is their favourite food. There are hundreds of thousands of them about Mustela nivalis ...

The species' prey include mice ... or a weasel due to the animals' similar appearances. 'It’s a wild weasel, same family as ferrets hence the similar look but they are mean little guys ...

They baited those traps with seven types of lures to see which ones attracted the most mustelids -- a diverse family of carnivores ... Of all the weasel species to worry about, the "least weasel ...