Both sexes may consume insects, earthworms, frogs, snakes, birds and bird’s eggs, especially when small mammals are scarce. The hunting method is typical of many mustelids, with an individual coursing ...

Wild weasel kits are remarkable among young mammals in that they possess the ability to drop into a torpid state when their parent is out hunting. Their heart rate drops and they go into a deep ...

When James Gunn first introduced Weasel in the 2021 feature film "The Suicide Squad," he knew that the DC Comics character - either an animalistic human or a human-like animal, depending on your ...

The fisher is a member of the weasel family that has a long body with fur that is primarily dark to chocolate brown. Further down on this mammal’s taxonomy, its scientific name is Pekania ...