Description: Any of various carnivorous mammals of the genus Mustela, having a long slender body, a long tail, short legs, and brownish fur that in many species turns white in winter.
Habitat/Food: The weasel can be found almost anywhere in Canada (the coast, the mountains, the prairies and the far north). The weasel will move into a den of an animal that it has killed. It hunts for rabbits, rats, birds, frogs, ground squirrels and pika ( a small rodent that lives in the mountains). It eats hundreds of meadow mice. Weasels that live in the north also feed on Arctic hare and lemming.
Interesting Fact: The weasel does not have many friends. Animals much bigger than it do not dare come near. Some say the weasel will kill without reason even though it is not hungry. It is not afraid to fight a bear or a porcupine.