Field naturalists have observed the activities of weasels for centuries. Their descriptions were often accurate but sometimes misinterpreted the animals? behaviours and underlying explanations for those behaviours. ?Organised natural history? […]
The unique flora and fauna of New Zealand and Australia arose largely due to speciation that occurred in geographic isolation for approximately 60 and 38 million years respectively. However, the […]
Many studies on life history strategies of small mammals under predation risk are based on assumptions that mammalian predators use scent marking from prey in searching and hunting. This is […]
4 frenata and 1 rixosa on 160 acres of flat corn prairie, observed by snowtracking. Latrines at burrow entrances and latrine chanbers inside burrow provided scats for analysis. Bold and […]
1. The delayed density-dependent predation of specialists such as weasels (Mustela nivalis L.) may result in cycles in the abundance of their prey. We estimated the demographic impact of weasel […]
We compared the utility of five nuclear gene segments amplified with type I sequence-tagged site (STS) primers versus the complete mitochondrial cytochrome b (cyt b) gene in resolving phylogenetic relationships […]
In last week of April 1967, near Barmouth (Merioneths), saw 2 weasels fighting on grass verge, so stopped to watch from car. They fought with concentrated ferocity, until one got […]
On threshing a stack, found large number of half grown rats and 11 fullgrown weasels, living amicably – no dead rats around. Presumes predators dont hunt close to own dens. […]
