What happens when two stoats meet for the first time? Well, in the wild, you’d likely get a very different answer. However, in the attached video, we are introduced to a pair of baby stoats, and ...

SIR HERBERT MAXWELL'S letter on the above in NATURE of February 17, p. 220, raises points of great interest. Presumably if his glacial explanation be correct, stoats taken from the Scottish ...

July 13, 2024 at 6:00am BST. It’s ages since I saw Mustela erminea hibernica, the Irish subspecies of the stoat, a ferocious little mammal feared and respected in equal measure by generations in ...

Stoat (Mustela erminea) What’s the difference between a weasel and a stoat? A weasel is weasally recognised and a stoat is stoatally different. Thus the stoat is three times heavier than the weasel, ...

A coordinated stoat cull on the Scottish islands has proved successful – and conservationists aren't slowing down ...

The Stoat has a wide distribution. ... The Irish Stoat is a small, short-legged animal but since it has a long, sinuous body and a long tail it appears to be bigger.

Stoats (part of the same taxonomic family as badgers, weasels and otters) were first reported on Orkney in 2010, according to the ONWP, and soon began to threaten the island's ecosystem.

The Irish Stoat Citizen Science Survey is in its final weeks — and researchers need your help! Nearly 800 sightings have been verified across Ireland, yet some areas with suitable habitats still ...

IN her letter to NATURE of March 24 Miss I. Sollas remarks on the “canary-yellow” colour “in members of the stoat family when the winter whitening is incomplete,” adding, “there can thus ...

New Zealand spent about $300,000 to eradicate a single male stoat from its Chalky Island wildlife sanctuary, raising eyebrows on social media over the high cost.

A project to eradicate stoats from Orkney has been granted £4m to continue its work. The Orkney Native Wildlife Project has spent £7.9m trapping more than 6,300 stoats on the islands since 2019.