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The Mustela Foundation also carries out action for health protection by distributing free literature. [12] The Mustela Foundation launched a prize for maieutic in France in 2012, in Belgium in 2014, in Spain in 2017 and in Turkey in 2019. In 2022, the Mustela Foundation launched the Vulnerabilities Research Grant in France.
The back-striped weasel (Mustela strigidorsa), also called the stripe-backed weasel, is a weasel widely distributed in Southeastern Asia. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List in view of its presumed large population, occurrence in many protected areas, apparent tolerance to some degree of habitat modification and hunting pressure.
Weasels / ˈ w iː z əl z / are mammals of the genus Mustela of the family Mustelidae. The genus Mustela includes the least weasels , polecats , stoats , ferrets , and European mink . Members of this genus are small, active predators, with long and slender bodies and short legs.
Mustela stromeri was a mustelid believed have lived in vast territories of central Eurasia until its extinction during the Middle Pleistocene. [5] Often, Mustela stromeri was found in Eastern Europe. [6] Its remains have been unearthed in Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Romania, [7] and date from the Villafranchian to the Günz II ...
Six extant mustelid genera left-to-right, top-to-bottom: Martes, Meles, Lutra, Gulo, Mustela, and Mellivora Mustelidae is a family of mammals in the order Carnivora, which includes weasels, badgers, otters, ferrets, martens, minks, and wolverines, and many other extant and extinct genera.
Mustela nivalis ssp. russelliana Thomas, 1911 Mustela russelliana Thomas 1911 Mustela aistoodonnivalis , the missing-toothed pygmy weasel or Sichuan weasel , is a species of weasel that inhabits mountains in the Shaanxi and Sichuan provinces of China.
Japanese weasel (Mustela itatsi) with a frog it has hunted in its mouth. Weasels hunt regardless of whether it is day or night, instead, they hunt depending on their level of hunger. [11] For Japanese weasels, hunting most often occurs along rivers though, at times, they enter suburban areas and grasslands to find prey. [8]
The American mink (Neogale vison) is a semiaquatic species of mustelid native to North America, though human introduction has expanded its range to many parts of Europe, Asia, and South America.