Weasels Are Built for the Hunt
“The weasel heart beats at up to 400 pulses per minute,” said Mark Linnell, a faculty research assistant who studies mustelids at Oregon State University. “They’re geared to run at full speed, and they’re always high-strung.”
.. Big cats must eat the equivalent of roughly a third of their weight each week; weasels must eat a third or more of their weight each day.
.. a strategy that allows them to attack prey up to 10 times their size.
.. Weasels are among the few animals that play as adults.
If they’re well fed, Dr. Powell said, “they’ll bounce and ricochet around, pounce, stalk, wiggle and change shape and just about turn themselves inside out. They put kittens to shame.”
.. A good head of human hair has about 350 hairs per square inch. On a mink, the fiber count per square inch is 44,000