Alaska species accounts, part 1, v4403
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7, Cade 1958 Mustela nixosa 24 June Barrow, Alaska While Pete Sovalik, Brock and I were locating plots for Schuety near T9E10, Pete saw a weasel run into a hole in some peat clumps which had been dug up along an old pipe line. The animal soon reappeared at the entrance to watch us, and by digging out the burrow and chasing him across the tundra a warp, we were able to catch him. Pee is now in a terrarium in our lab. The animal is an adult male in full summer pelage. Seems to be quite calm in captivity. Weasel sign - scats and eaten remains of lemmings in nets (see under Lemmuses) - are extensive all over the tundra around Barrow. They have been found around transects 1, 2 on gasoline ridge, around G6E also on ridge ground, and around 9E10 on interweldite ground. Also all over Central Marsh, in the can area back of QBL and south of Central Marsh within 1 mile of the geyser well, which is as far out as I have investigated. More weasels were seen by us last summer, although