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The American marten is a long, slender-bodied weasel about the size of a mink with relatively large, rounded ears, short limbs, and a bushy tail. American marten have a roughly triangular head and sharp nose. Their long, silky fur ranges in color from pale yellowish buff to tawny brown to almost black.
Martens are slender, agile animals, ... Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population American marten Martes americana (Turton, 1806) ...
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.
Apr. 12—If you want to learn about the health of wild animals in the forests of Maine, pay attention to what's going on with the American marten. Research at the University of Maine led by ...
The American marten is the only mammal on the state list of endangered species (the gray wolf if federally listed as endangered). The marten has been the focus of several reintroduction efforts ...
The marten is a mesocarnivore species which are found in Canada, United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. There are many different species of the marten. Their physical characteristics include a variation in size and colour from yellow to shades of dark brown, short legs, small, round ears and slender bodies, with thick coats. [20]
The Pennsylvania Game Commission is considering a reintroduction of the American marten, a furbearer last seen in Pennsylvania in the early 1900s.
Opossums probably diverged from the basic South American marsupials in the late Cretaceous or early Paleocene. They are small to medium-sized marsupials, about the size of a large house cat, with a long snout and prehensile tail. Family: Didelphidae (American opossums) Subfamily: Didelphinae. Virginia opossum, D. virginiana [n 1] [n 2] LC