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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. A member of this family is called a mustelid; Mustelidae is the largest family in Carnivora, and its extant species are divided into eight subfamilies.
Mustelidae is a subfamily in Musteloidia, a superfamily of mammals that is united by shared skull and teeth characteristics. Mustelids are believed to have separated from their next closest related family, Procyonidae, around 29 million years ago. [ 17 ]
Some of the larger wild predators of ermines are minks, martens, fishers, bobcats, coyotes, and large owls and hawks. Occasionally a domesticated cat or dog may kill an ermine. Their small agile bodies help them evade these predators, while also allowing them to compete with their predators for food in more barren months. [8]
The family Mustelidae, or mustelids (which also includes badgers, otters, and wolverines), is often referred to as the "weasel family". In the UK, the term "weasel" usually refers to the smallest species , the least weasel ( M. nivalis ), [ 1 ] the smallest carnivoran species.
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.
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Mustelidae, the weasel (mustelid) family, including new- and old-world badgers, ferrets and polecats, fishers, grisons and ratels, martens and sables, minks, river and sea otters, stoats and ermines, tayras and wolverines. Procyonidae, the raccoons and raccoon-like procyonids, including coatimundis, kinkajous, olingos, olinguitos, ringtails and ...
Males tend to eat more mammals and crustacean while females tend to eat a more varied diet of insects, fruit and earthworms. [1] Their stomachs can only hold 10–20 grams (0.4–0.7 oz) of food and as small rodents weigh 15–30 grams (0.5–1 oz), Japanese weasels cannot eat more than one small rodent in a sitting. [11]