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The ermine, also known as a short-tailed weasel, has a body well suited to chasing down its prey. Long and slim, with short legs, they pursue smaller prey through grasses, up trees, across rivers, in snow and directly into their tunnels and dens.

They can take down prey as much as ten times their weight, including rabbits, hares and woodchucks!

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[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)
[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Nice, subscribed!

[–] AnotherHelldiver@jlai.lu 5 points 2 days ago

I'm feeling obliged to upvote and comment the cuteness of this little creature.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 3 points 2 days ago

Awww those weasel hands

[–] breadguy@kbin.earth 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I always confuse them with stoats

[–] Infernal_pizza@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

Weasels are weasily identifiable and stoats are stoatally different

'A stoat can be easily told from a weasel by the simple fact that his tail is blacked and his figure is slightly the bigger.'

Was told that way back when I was a kid, no idea if it's true though.

[–] MiniMoose4Free@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

That's exactly when I ran into the girl of my dreams

Her name was Zelda

She was a calligraphy enthusiast

With a slight overbite and hair the color of strained peaches

I'll never forget the very first thing she said to me

She said "Hey, you've got weasels on your face"

[–] TheWordBotcher@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

That's when I knew it was true love

We were inseparable after that

Ah, we ate together, we bathed together

We even shared the same piece of mint flavored dental floss

The world was our burrito