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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
USA - Minnesota
Sent by Millik, a partner in Swap-Bot. Do you know what animal is this? According to Millik, it is called a stoat. It is brown in the summer, and turns white in winter.
This is from Wikipedia : The stoat or ermine, Mustela erminea, is a small predatory mammal of the family Mustelidae. It is also known as a Shorttail (or Short-tailed) Weasel and less frequently as the ermelin. Sometimes "ermine" refers to the animal only when it has white fur in the winter, and in this case "stoat" only refers to it when it has brown fur.
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