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1. Cade
1958
Mustela vixosa
24 June - cont
Pete Sovalik found a family of
weasels near the village last July.
Mr. Brewer says no one reported
seeing weasels all last winter; yet
they must have been present in
some numbers. Again the date suggest
that the weasel population moved
into the Bawaw area from somewhere
rather than having been produced
locally from a small reservoir of
breeders. If the lemmings themselves
were moving into the Bawaw area
last fall, perhaps the weasels followed
them.
July
Bawaw- Our captive weasel has
had a live white quail caged with
him for 3 days. So far the weasel
has shown little interest in the quail
and certainly no inclination to kill it.
There has been plenty of dead food available
in the cage at all times.
When a dead lemur is placed in the
terrarium, the weasel immediately drops
it into his nest. He consumes it there
later working the feathers, wings etc.
into the nesting material. This would
seem to support our view that this