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Ermine

Mustela erminea Linnaeus 1758

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Mustela erminea (Ermine) is a species of mammals in the family Mustelidae. It is associated with freshwater habitat. It is native to Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, France, North Korea, Tajikistan, Croatia, Georgia, United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Romania, Canada, Nepal, Guernsey, Serbia, Albania, Isle of Man, Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan, Japan, Uzbekistan, Bulgaria, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Sweden, Slovenia, Jersey, Russia, Czech Republic, United States, Norway, Belgium, Liechtenstein, Ukraine, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Turkmenistan, Denmark, Montenegro, Switzerland, South Korea, Austria, Latvia, and Macedonia. Ermine is a solitary mammalivore. Individuals are known to live for 85.23 months and can grow to 284.5 g. Reproduction is dioecious. Ermine relies on arboreal (locomotion) to move around.

URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000873
Definition: A biome that applies to the freshwater realm.

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Definition: Island in the English Channel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey

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URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/mammalivore
Definition: carnivorous animal which eats primarily mammals

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URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/solitary
Definition: Solitary animals are those that spend a majority of their lives without others of their species, with possible exceptions for mating and raising their young. The antonym to a solitary animal is a social animal.
Attribution: https://www.definitions.net/definition/solitary+animal

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URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q148681
Definition: a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct male and female individual organisms.

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URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NBO_0000364
Definition: Behavior related to the locomotion of animals in trees.

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EOL has data for 58 attributes, including:

body mass
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/VT_0001259
- Definition: The amount of matter in the body of an organism.
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25.22 g
eats
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002470
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Ochotona (Pika) princeps (Richardson 1828) (American Pika)
ecomorphological guild
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/EcomorphologicalGuild
- Definition: organisms that share certain morphological traits due to adaptation to similar environments and ecological roles
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fossorial and/or ground dwelling
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/fossorialOrGround
- Definition: An organism that is adapted to terrestrial life below ground, on or near the ground.
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first appearance
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/FossilFirst
- Definition: The first appearance of this taxon in the fossil record.
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1.8 million years ago
habitat
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002303
- Definition: x has habitat y if: x is an organism, y is a habitat, and y can sustain and allow the growth of a population of x
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hedge
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000046
- Definition: A dense growth of shrubbery planted as a fence or boundary.
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is eaten by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002471
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Buteo swainsoni Bonaparte 1838 (Swainson's Hawk)
locomotion
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0040011
- Definition: Self-propelled movement of a cell or organism from one location to another.
- Attribution: [database_cross_reference: GOC:dgh]
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arboreal locomotion
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NBO_0000364
- Definition: Behavior related to the locomotion of animals in trees.
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number of fossil occurrences
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/fossilOccPBDB
- Definition: The number of fossil occurrences in the Paleobiology Database (https://paleobiodb.org) that are identified as belonging to a particular taxon or any of its subtaxa.
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17
parasitized by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002445
- Definition: automatically added during harvest
- Comment: Auto-added during harvest #37. A human needs to edit this.
- Attribution: Global Biotic Interactions
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Mycobacterium avium
preys on
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002439
- Definition: An interaction relationship involving a predation process, where the subject kills the target in order to eat it or to feed to siblings, offspring or group members
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Tamias (Tamias) striatus (Linnaeus 1758) (Eastern Chipmunk)
trophic level
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1053008
- Definition: position of an organism in a food web. May be described verbally with descriptors including primary producer, herbivore or carnivore. If described numerically, 1 indicates a primary producer, 2 a herbivore, and so on up the food web.
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omnivore
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q164509
- Definition: organism consuming a variety of foods, usually including both plants and animals
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weaning age
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/WeaningAge
- Definition: Age when primary nutritional dependency on the mother ends and independent foraging begins to make a major contribution to the offspring’s energy requirements.
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60.93 days

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of ermine. View this species on GBIF

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ermine includes 37 children: