| Mammals such as weasels, foxes, stoats and especially roe deer can wander safely without the risk of being killed by traffic. |
| In addition, snowy owls, rough-legged hawks, and stoats are also present and prey on lemmings but not on geese. |
| Rats, stoats, ferrets, cats, and possums have decimated native animals that were unaccustomed to mammalian predators. |
| Ferrets and stoats, introduced by European settlers in the nineteenth century, pushed the birds further into the backblocks of New Zealand. |
| Many small creatures such as snakes, lizards, weasels and stoats would also live in the hills, and bats would have lived in cliff caves. |
| Other animals spotted in Greater Manchester include otters, stoats and weasels. |
