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[Tengu]

The Weasel...



Casual wildlife encounters are an everyday thing here in Prehistoric Scotland, but I spend a few minutes in the car quietly watching these really random road users. Dont they move fast? Even with my inordinately tolerant camera this was a tricky shot.

 

[Toddy]

The move like furry snakes
They twist and wriggle, and weasel there way through the fences here.
Very cute, and fun to watch

 

[TeeDee]

Probably the cutest animal around.

 

[swyn]

I was walking along a lane a while ago and ahead of me was what looked like the usual and quite common pile of horse poop. As I drew closer I saw it was moving and disentangled itself to reveal a family of four weasels that had been playing rolly-polly tag games.
Fab pic!
S

 

[Broch]

Great shot - fantastic little animals!
But, to be pedantic, they're Stoats not weasels

 

[swyn]

Great shot - fantastic little animals!
But, to be pedantic, they're Stoats not weasels

Weasily recognised or stoatally different!
S

 

[Toddy]

It's the tail

 

[Robbi]

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Fantastic photo Tengu.

 

[Tengu]

How do I tell the difference?

Some small Mustelid to me.

 

[Wander]

Weasels are slightly smaller (though hard to tell by size when seen in isolation).
The giveaway is the tail - stoats have a black, bushy tip to their tail. Weasels have a shorter tail that is neither black nor bushy.

 

[Toddy]

Longer tail with a dark tip = stoat.
Weasels have shorter tails.

 

[Tengu]

Thank you. Funny beasts.