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Weasels feed on small mammals and have from time to time been considered vermin because some species took poultry from farms or rabbits from commercial warrens. They do, on the other hand, eat large numbers of rodents. Their range spans Europe, North America, much of Asia and South America, and small areas in North Africa.
The least weasel is the product of a process begun 5–7 million years ago, when northern forests were replaced by open grassland, thus prompting an explosive evolution of small, burrowing rodents. The weasel's ancestors were larger than the current form, and underwent a reduction in size to exploit the new food source.
Home range size does not appear to be related to body size for either sex. [24] Home range size ranged from 0.04 sq mi (0.1 km 2 ) in Maine to 6.1 sq mi (15.7 km 2 ) in Minnesota for males, and 0.04 sq mi (0.1 km 2 ) in Maine to 3.0 sq mi (7.7 km 2 ) in Wisconsin for females.
The long-tailed weasel was originally described in the genus Mustela with the name Mustela frenata by Hinrich Lichtenstein in 1831. [3] [4] In 1993, the classification, Mustela frenata, was accepted into the second edition of the Mammal species of the world: a taxonomic and geographic reference, which was published by the Smithsonian Institution Press. [4]
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This is a list of all wild mammal species currently found in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Louisiana has a total of 70 mammal species within its borders. Louisiana has a total of 70 mammal species within its borders.
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