The common weasel, stoat, and European polecat may be silently disappearing from the Dutch landscape. At least, that is what biologists suspect. These animals are so elusive and difficult to study ...

Social dominance and interference are two components included in hypotheses attempting to explain stoat-weasel coexistence. In this study we tested predictions related to 1) stoat dominance, 2) the ...

Global warming is threatening the survival of the common stoat – because its winter coat is no longer an advantage in the milder weather. The Dutch mammal society Zoogdiervereniging has designated ...

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Scientists in the United Kingdom have conducted a large-scale screening for sarbecoviruses and pan-coronaviruses in British Wildlife to investigate the occurrence of widespread spillover events. They ...

ABOUT a year ago there was some correspondence on this subject in NATURE. I mentioned (February 17, 1923, p. 220) that a stoat frequenting our flower garden had assumed white pelage during the winter ...