1: Weaselly distinguished, stoatally different
2: Hair trigger mouse traps with teeth
3: Molt and winter whitening
4: Body size
5: Food
6: Hunting behavior
7: The impact of predation by weasels on populations of natural
prey
8: Adjustable living spaces
9: Reproduction
10: Populations: density and breeding success
11: Populations: survival and mortality
12: Human attitudes to weasels in their native environments
13: Stoats as introduced pests in New Zealand
14: Puzzles: sexual dimorphism, delayed implantation and
co-existence among weasel species
Conclusion
The emphasis of this new edition has moved from a British to a N. American flavour with much to say about the booming populations of mustelids in New Zealand; still an excellent natural history book for the British ecologist. British Ecological Society 2008 This is some of the best current natural history writing. Highland News
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