Stoats Hypnotize Rabbits Before Killing Them explores the eerie and fascinating hunting strategy of stoats, who appear to mesmerize their prey with erratic movements before striking. This gripping ...

Like other members of the mustelid family, which includes the badger, otter, pine marten and mink, stoats are carnivorous, hunting mostly rodents and rabbits which they kill by bites to the back ...

Credit: Francisco Negroni/Wildlife Photographer of the Year “Whiteout” by Michel d’Oultremont (Belgium), Highly commended A stoat sits up and observes its territory as it blends perfectly ...

Furthermore, stoats are known to survive the harshest winters in northern Greenland by living quite happily under the snow and hunting the Arctic Lemmings that survive there too. Genetic studies ...

The predilection for rabbits means that stoats frequently inhabit open, grassy ground, hunting along hedges, ditches and drystone walls. In northern and upland areas, stoats are turn-coats, going from ...

Conservationists are celebrating the success of a large-scale stoat removal project in Orkney. The non-native mammals have wreaked havoc on indigenous birds and voles since their arrival on the ...

A project to remove non-native stoats from Orkney has boosted threatened birds and a species of vole found only on the islands, conservationists said. The Orkney Native Wildlife Project ...

Jose Manuel Grandío (Spain) braves below-zero temperatures to witness a stoat jumping high into the air above the snow. Winter is Jose’s favourite season for photography. He spotted this stoat jumping ...