Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Mustela arizonensis
Oct. 1-1932-Camp Tundry-20 miles N5.E.
Peratullo-Barnett Co. 3do. 6300ft.
One specimen # 696, was taken
under rather unusual circumstances.
It was caught in a meadles
[illegible] trap. Two traps had been
painted in either direction in a
gopher run about 1 inches below
the surface of the ground. The set
had been left over night, and
when examined, one trap held a
gopher and the other this weasel.
From the position of the animal in
the trap it appeared that he had
entered the underground run at
some other point and was caught
as to approached the opening I had
made. This is good evidence that
the weasels are operating as
natural enemies of pocket gophers.