This little cute creature is also known as the short-tailed weasel, distinguished from the least weasel by its larger size and longer tail with a prominent black tip. As with the least weasel, mouse-like rodents predominate in the stoat's diet. However, unlike the least weasel which almost exclusively feeds on small voles, the stoat regularly preys on larger rodent and lagomorph species.
The stoat does not dig its own burrows, instead using the burrows and nest chambers of the rodents it kills. The skins and underfur of rodent prey are used to line the nest chamber. The nest chamber is sometimes located in seemingly unsuitable places, such as among logs piled against the walls of houses. The stoat also inhabits old and rotting stumps, under tree roots, in heaps of brushwood, haystacks, in bog hummocks, in the cracks of vacant mud buildings, in rock piles, rock clefts, and even in magpie nests.
We encountered this cute but formidable predator very near to our resort in Jispa, well within the human habitation. If threatened they attack human beings by biting on the calf muscle!
a ranna – a dhasskrifa, lesranna ha treuskorra an ober
a gemyska – a aswiwa an ober
Yn-dann an ragselyow a syw:
askrifans – Res yw dhywgh ri askrifans gwiw, provia kevren dhe'n lecyans, ha meneges mar peu chanjyow gwrys. Hwi a yll gul hemma yn fordh resonus a vynnowgh, mes ny yllir y wul yn fordh a broffo synser an lecyans dh'agas skoodhya po agas devnydh.
ranna kehaval – Mar kwrewgh hwi chanjya, treusfurvya po drehevel war an ober ma, res yw dhywgh lesranna agas kevrohow yn-dann an keth lecyans hag an derowel, po lecyans kesplegadow.
An restren ma a's teves kedhlow keworransel, dres lycklod keworrys dhyworth an kamera bysyel po an skanyer devnydhys rag hy gwruthyl po hy bysya. Mars yw chanjys an restren dhyworth hy studh gwredhek, possybyl yw na veu nebes manylyon nowedhys.