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How are ferrets like weasels?
The ferret is in the "weasel family", along with minks, ermines and weasels
What do weasels and ferrets do not have in common as characteristics?
Ferrets are domesticated, weasels are wild animals. A ferret is in the weasel family
Are raccoons related to weasels?
Raccoons and weasels are not closely related. Raccoons belong to the Procyonidae family, while weasels belong to the Mustelidae family. They share some similarities in appearance, such as a long body and pointed snout, but they have different behaviors and ecological roles.
What do Ferret look like?
Ferrets are small weasels with an elongated body like the mongoose or the meerkat, although the latter two are family Herpestidae while weasels are in the family Mustidae.
What animal is similar to weasels?
Weasels are members of the Mustelidae family. Several other members of this family closely resemble the weasel such as ferrets, mink, martens, polecats, otters and tayras.
Is a meerkat a rodant?
No, it is a member of the mongoose family, a distant relative of weasels.
Is the weasel family part of the rodent family?
No. Weasels are members of the order Carnivora. Rodents have their own order of Rodentia. Therefore, their families are also different. weasels are members of the family Mustelidae, and rodents have a number of different families within their order.
What animals are in the Mustelidae family?
The family Mustelidae (55 species in 24 genera) is a diverse family, the largest and probably the oldest extant (living) family in the order Carnivora, there are different subgroups within the major group . Weasels include weasels, mink, ferrets, stoats and polecats; martens include martens and fishers; badgers include badgers and wolverine; and otters include sea otters and river otters.
Are wolverine badgers and beavers all weasels?
Wolverines and Badgers belong to the 'weasel family', Mustelidae, but not the Genus Mustela, the 'true weasels'.Beavers are rodents, and don't even belong to the same Order as weasels. (Rodentia, as opposed to Carnivora).
What prey do weasels have?
Weasels are predators and are surprisingly very aggressive and will attack almost any animal on sight. Otters are members of the weasel family and eat fish primarily. Weasels eat many vermin such as moles, shrews, and rats.
What common pet is a member of the weasel family?
Weasels are in the family Mustelidaeof the order Carnivora. The weasel family includes ferrets, stoats, European polecats, minks, ermine, black-footed ferrets, long tailed weasels, least weasels. Other relatives of the weasels are martens, otters, badgers, and wolverines. The terms stoat and ermine are terms for the long tailed and short tailed weasels in their winter coats.Genus: Mustela - Ermines, ferrets, minks, stoats, European polecat ferrets
True or false Mongooses are members of the weasel family?
FALSE!!!!! Mongooses belong in the Herpestidae family and weasels belong in the Mustelidae.
