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What is a fur producing weasel?
Fur producing weasel in the Fur family - Mustelidae are badger, ermine, fisher, fitch (ferret) marten, mink, otter, sable
Is an Ferret a mammal?
No, ferrets are not marsupials. Ferrets are related to weasels in the family Mustelidae of the order Carnivora. The weasel family includes - Ferret, stoat, polecat, mink, ermine, black-footed ferret, long tailed weasel, least weasel.
Is a ferret related to a stoat?
I don't think so, but ferrets can interbreed with wild polecat ferrets. In Russia, a hybrid was created of a ferret and a European mink, named "Khonorik". Its parents were a hybrid male of a polecat ferret (wild x steppe) and a female of European mink, making it a hybrid of three species. Later on Khonoriks were bred from a thoroughbred wild European polecat ferret and European mink.
The expensive mink coat is made from fur which comes from?
A mink, an animal similar to a ferret or a stoat.
What type of animal is a wolverine - a wolf or dog?
Well the wolf is part of the canine family and that shows a wolverine is too. Answer is both.
What is a cousin of the weasel?
A cousin of a weasel is a mink and a ferret. If you want to find more cousins of a weasel just type in weasel to Google or use Wikipedia and type in Mustelidae which is the family of a weasel and More...
What is a cousin to the otter?
The relatives of the Otter are the ferret, the wolverine, the ermine, the mink,and any others in the weasel family. Also the twotypes of Otters are the Sea Otter & the River Otter. click on this link for more information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel
Do ferrets look like weasels?
A ferret is in the weasel family. Of the 16 extant species currently classified in the genus Mustela, ten have "weasel" in their common name. Among those that do not are the stoat or ermine, the two species of mink, and the polecats or ferrets. Weasels vary in length from fifteen to thirty-five centimeters (six to fourteen inches).
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
How many different types of weasel are there?
Depending on what you define as a "weasel", there are either 12 or 17 varieties. That is, of the 17 members of the genus Mustela, there are 5 who do not have the word "weasel" in their given name. They are the Stoat, which has weasel in it's common name in some parts of the world, and the Steppe Polecat, the European Mink, the Black-footed Ferret, the European Polecat. The 17 species of weasel (and their common name) are: 1. Mustela africana - Tropical Weasel 2. Mustela altaica - Mountain Weasel 3. Mustela erminea - Stoat (also known as an ermine or a short tailed weasel) 4. Mustela eversmannii - Steppe Polecat 5. Mustela felipei - Columbian Weasel 6. Mustela frenata - Long-tailed Weasel 7. Mustela itatsi - Japanese Weasel 8. Mustela kathiah - Yellow-bellied Weasel 9. Mustela lutreola - European Mink 10. Mustela lutreolina - Indonesian Mountain Weasel 11. Mustela nigripes - Black-footed Ferret 12. Mustela nivalis - Least Weasel 13. Mustela nudipes - Malaysian Weasel 14. Mustela putorius - European Polecat (it is thought that the European Polecat was dometsticated and became the domestic ferret we know today) 15. Mustela sibirica - Siberian Weasel 16. Mustela strigidorsa - Back-striped Weasel 17. Mustela subpalmata -Egyptian Weasel There used to be 18, but the American Mink has since been renamed Neovison vison. I believe it is the only surviving member of the genus Neovison, as the others were hunted to extinction for their fur.
What are ferrets related to?
A ferret is a weasel like mammal (Mustela putorius furo) related to the European polecat ferret and often trained to hunt rats or rabbits. Ferrets are related to weasels in the family Mustelidae of the orderCarnivora.The weasel family includes - Ferret, stoat, polecat, mink, ermine, black-footed ferret, long tailed weasel, least weasel. 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.. Ferrets are not related to skunks or rodentsPolecats, weasels, stoats, pine martens, badgers, skunks, wolverines, otters, grisons and tayras - the Mustelidae.Yes, they are all in the Mustelidae family and very similar in body shape and size
What is a small white rodent that looks like a mink?
the closest thing to a mink would probably be a long-tailed weasel in it's winter coat but not of size Further answer Maybe you mean a ferret
