One Small carnivore Survived The Last Ice Age In Ireland

Science Daily ^ | 4-22-2007 | Queen's University Belfast

[Frank_2001]

LMAO!:)

[omnivore]

"...probably survived the extreme cold at the peak of the last Ice Age by living under the snow and eating lemmings..."

Wonder what the lemmings were eating.

Interesting point about whether they eat snakes. These stoats look like they're in the weasel and mongoose family. Mongooses will eat snakes, I don't know about weasels.

[Stoat]

Thank you for the pings and for the interesting thread about my Irish cousins and their fine, stout lineage   :-)

 

As to questions about gastronomy and culinary peculiarities of various stoat-clans, I am embarrassed to say that I am no expert.  Being more of a city-stoat, I'm more drawn to steaks rather than snakes, gumbo over lemmings, and a very rare, occasional 'whiff' of fine Irish whisky.

"cooking gumbo at the stoat cave"

"a far better beverage choice than the typical muddy puddle outside the typical stoat den"

Having visited the Emerald Isle and fallen deeply in love with the land and her fine people, I'm not at all surprised to discover that many in the Irish animal kingdom are truly fine and special as well, with a valiant and dignified history..

A word of warning to anyone planning a visit....you won't want to return home and you will spend the rest of your life wanting to visit Ireland again   :-)

[Youngblood]

Stoats eat rabbits, mice, voles and so on. Haven’t come across any accounts of them eating snakes, but its possible. BBC Wildlife did a David Attenborough documentary on them called “Stoats in the Priory”. It is worth getting hold of to see diminutive stoats killing and dragging rabbits more than three times their size and weight back to their young!

And yes, stoats are weasels. Their North American subspecies is called the short-tailed weasel, or in northern regions where it undergoes winter whitening, the ermine.

[VRWCer]

mark for later!

[SisBoombah]

Mares eat *oats* and does eat *oats*
etc,
Some of us are older than we sound!

[Eagles6]

No! No! It’s mares eat OATS!And does eat OATS! For the love of all that’s good and holy, man! Do you realize what you have done? Stalin, mao, hitler and saddam all thought it was stoats. It’s OATS!

[MrNeutron1962]

First Cousin to the Sporkweasel.

[Ciexyz]

Cute lil' bugger.

[Tax-chick]

That all looks delicious! I think I’ll encourage my husband to make gumbo later this week!

[Stoat]

I hope that you and your husband will enjoy it :-)

It’s easy to make....if a scruffy, fleabitten stoat can make it, anyone can :-)