The weasel, also known as the weasel, is named Mustela sibirica and Yellow weasel in English. It belongs to the genus Weasel, mammals, carnivores and a subclass of vertebrates in the vertebrate kingdom.
This species has been listed in the List of Terrestrial Wild Animals under National Key Protection or with Important Economic and Scientific Research Value issued by the State Forestry Administration in August 2000 1.
The weasel belongs to the weasel family. Because it is brown or orange, it is called the weasel in zoology. The common name of weasel is weasel. Everyone will find it strange to talk about weasels, but the name weasel is a household name, and everyone knows it. Weasels have a bad reputation. There is a saying: "Weasels are unkind and don't give new year greetings to chickens", which has left a bad name for stealing chickens. In fact, this is "wronged" it.
Biologists dissected 5,000 weasels in the whole country 1 1 provinces and cities, and identified the remains left in their stomachs, of which only two weasels ate chickens. Later, the feeding habits of live weasels were tested: on the first night, live chickens and hairtail were put into the weasels' cages. As a result, the live chicken was safe and the fish was eaten; The next night, put in chickens, pigeons, mice and toads. As a result, the mouse ate it all, and the toad ate part of it; On the third night, the chickens and pigeons were released, and the weasel killed the pigeons; On the fourth night, only live chickens were released, and the weasel took the chicken to satisfy his hunger. It can be seen that it only eats chicken when it is extremely hungry and helpless.
In fact, weasels love to eat mice. He is also an expert in catching mice. According to statistics, a weasel can kill three or four hundred mice a year. Once the mouse is bitten by it, it can be swallowed in a few bites. If you find a rat nest, it can dig a rat hole and destroy the whole nest. A weasel can get back 300 to 400 kilograms of grain from a mouse's mouth, based on the fact that each mouse eats 1 kg of grain every year. Therefore, the weasel is not a chicken thief, but a good friend of mankind.