Ermine or stoats are small mustelids that live in Eurasia and the northern portions of North America. In summer, their fur is sandy-brown on the back and head and a white below. During the winter period, they become completely white except for the black tail-tip.
These little creatures prefer to spend time on their own and are very territorial. They do not dig their own burrows for shelter and rearing young; instead, they like to use the burrows ...
of the rodents they kill. Ermine shelters can be located in rotting stumps, under tree roots, in heaps of brushwood, haystacks, in bog hummocks, in rock piles, rock clefts, among logs piled against the walls of houses, and even in magpie nests. Males and females live apart, but close to each other and each ermine has several dens dispersed within its range.
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