The causes of its extinction remain unclear, but it is likely that rats, weasels, and cats played a role in its demise. |
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By openly admitting to being philanderers, draft dodgers, liars, weasels and cowards, liberals avoid ever being hypocrites. |
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Foxes, rabbits, harvest mice, house mice, dormice, shrews, weasels, and voles all depend on the hedgerows as a place to breed, hunt or shelter. |
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Long-tailed weasels are good mousers and ratters, so farmers do not mind having weasels around their farms because they eliminate these pests. |
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Predators of erethizontids include mustelids such as martens, minks, wolverines, ermine, weasels, and fishers. |
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A study of wild populations in Japan showed that the average longevity of Siberian weasels was about 2.1 years. |
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Other mammals in the region include red foxes, Siberian weasels, red deer, and even reindeer. |
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The North was to send 16 animals, including Asiatic black bears, lynx, coyotes, African ponies and Siberian weasels, zoo officials said. |
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Also known as Siberian weasels, these little furbearers are found in Siberia, China and other parts of Asia. |
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Many burrowing animals, from weasels to worm lizards, have smaller limbs today. |
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Both animals are related species and are members of the Mustelid family, which also includes mink, badgers and weasels. |
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Inhabiting the park's many dense thickets are badgers, wildcats, foxes, beech martens, weasels and Egyptian mongooses. |
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There, in addition to star-nosed moles, he inevitably encounters shrews, voles, weasels, field mice, and the occasional snapping turtle. |
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A European blowfly, yet another life-form introduced to New Zealand, proved to be as harmful as the weasels. |
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It's home to at least 300 vascular plants, 30 types of cacti and 249 vertebrate species, including mountain lions, bobcats and weasels. |
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They can be shot or trapped or otherwise killed as a nuisance animal, like gophers, skunks or weasels, Holsten said. |
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All kinds of critters like to dine on poultry, including raccoons, skunks, opossums, weasels, foxes, coyotes, dogs and feral cats. |
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Except for a scant few, the characters in St. Elmo's Fire are all either weasels, deceptive clods or selfish ninnies. |
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Any of the above, as well as weasels, lemmings, some hawks, ravens, Canada jays, and gulls will scavenge caribou carcasses. |
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In addition to the birds, there are numerous stoats, weasels, possums, and other things there. |
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We actually want to get rid of weasels, stoats, and possums so that the beautiful birdlife of this country can flourish. |
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Skunks, foxes, weasels, opossums and rabbits all use groundhog burrows for their dens. |
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After last year's triumph, you are cordially invited to bring your otters, voles, badgers and weasels for a day's work experience. |
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He personally has freeze-dried weasels, deer, chipmunks, squirrels, guinea pigs, chinchillas, ferrets, and more. |
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Nicola peered into the underbrush and made out a family of weasels peering right back at her, their coal-black eyes gleaming. |
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Yet nothing will deter my teams of trained stoats, ferrets and weasels from carrying out my orders and enabling me to achieve ultimate power. |
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Arctic foxes, short-tailed weasels and ermines are some of the smaller carnivores found here. |
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There must be some kind of gradation here in which stoats are classed as less obnoxious than weasels, although they are relatives. |
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At 36 days young weasels are weaned and can eat food brought back to the nest by the mother. |
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Mammals such as weasels, foxes, stoats and especially roe deer can wander safely without the risk of being killed by traffic. |
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Many small creatures such as snakes, lizards, weasels and stoats would also live in the hills, and bats would have lived in cliff caves. |
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The researchers say that nestlings in at least half of the nests they studied were eaten, mainly by martens and weasels. |
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Preyed upon by hawks, foxes, and weasels, they may also fall victim to domestic cats. |
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Of these animals, only weasels, otters and mink remain widespread, and the weasel is the only one that is still abundant. |
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Other animals spotted in Greater Manchester include otters, stoats and weasels. |
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Voles are an important source of food for many predators, including snakes, hawks, owls, coyotes, weasels, foxes, mink and badgers. |
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I was born in this house and as a boy, I remember often seeing foxes, badgers and weasels around the place. |
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Also this period saw the appearance of the mastodons, raccoons, and weasels. |
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Mammalian carnivores such as weasels and foxes catch voles by chasing or pouncing and are probably just as dangerous in dense cover as in sparse. |
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They applied for and received deferments, like the little weasels they are. |
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Pugnacious, bold, and curious, like other weasels, the wolverine is omnivorous and consumes a wide range of edible roots and berries, small game, and fish. |
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The cast is small, with most of the running time spent on the four leads, with some moments devoted to the field mice, weasels and other minor characters. |
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Scientists are attempting to save birds like this one by translocating them to offshore islands free of introduced predators like rats, cats, stoats, and weasels. |
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The production will tell the classic story of Toad, Mole, Ratty and Badger trying to overcome the evil ferrets, weasels and stoats who threaten to overrun the riverbank. |
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What is the difference between weasels and stoats in winter? |
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Superfluous killing has been reported for a diverse group of animals, including zooplankton, stoats and weasels, damselfly naiads, wolves, predaceous mites, and spiders. |
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It also walks on the soles of its feet like a bear, but the resemblance ends there, as the badger is actually from the same family as otters and weasels. |
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The cameras never detected some species that are believed to still exist in the area, such as black bears, long-tailed weasels, ringtails, badgers, and spotted skunks. |
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A much higher proportion of weasel scats, of partially consumed rodents, and of weasels themselves in our boxes occur in the fencerow habitat than in forest or edge. |
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The black bears that once roamed Point Pelee National Park are now gone, but coyotes, red foxes, raccoons, opossums, weasels, and muskrat are still around. |
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Terborgh found that predators such as pumas, jaguars, anacondas, eagles, armadillos, and some weasels were not able to persist on islands smaller than 37 acres. |
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Long-tailed weasels have a small, narrow head with long whiskers. |
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The theriodonts included both carnivores and herbivores, and various lineages correlated to late Cenozoic wolves, weasels, otters, rodents, and shrews. |
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Long-tailed weasels hunt their prey by picking up a scent or sound. |
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Predators such as weasels, Mustela nivalis, can detect female deer mice, Peromyscus maniculatus, that are in reproductive condition, probably using their odor. |
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Ferrets belong to the Mustelid family of mammals which includes weasels, stoats, polecats and badgers. |
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Predators include humans, hawks, weasels, raccoons, foxes, domestic and feral cats, snakes, owls, and dogs. |
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Other common weasels in this area are the least weasel and the short-tailed weasel or ermine. |
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The genus Mustela includes the least weasels, polecats, stoats, ferrets, and minks. |
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In neighboring Macedonia, however, weasels are generally seen as an omen of good fortune. |
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Red foxes may kill small mustelids like weasels, stone martens, pine martens, stoats, kolonoks, polecats and young sables. |
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He must take care to monitor the deer, foxes, weasels, wild ferrets, wood mice, rabbits, grass snakes, adders and 75 species of birds, all of which live in the park. |
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With two exceptions, the only traps they can use are cumbersome, heavy, relatively ineffective cage or box traps and common rat traps to catch weasels. |
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The main predators of shrews are owls, weasels, stoats, and red foxes. |
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Sometimes, slow worms are taken, and even weasels and moles. |
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The sophistication of the warreners is shown by the existence of vermin traps that were placed near the warrens to capture weasels and stoats attempting to get at the rabbits. |
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This includes large numbers of stoats, weasels and corvine birds. |
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