WEASEL

 The otter is good-nature, sportive. Most animals play when young, but otters continue to play all their lives. Otters are brown, with short thick fur. The are 4 feet long from the tip of their nose to the tip of their tail, and have webbed feet.

The weasel’s dark brown fur changes color with the season. White in winter. The weasel is as adept in snow as it is in every other environment including trees, which it climbs easily and well.

In fact, the safest place for the young is on its mother’s back-they cling to her fur when she hunts for food. When in trouble, it will act dead to bore predators.

 A badger in a hurry can dig far underground in a few seconds. Pursued, it may go as much as 40 feet down. The badger shares with the bear the love of honey.It will claw open the bees' nest in its hollow tree, well able to ignore the hundreds of bees that attack, because a badger's fur is so thick, the bees cannot reach its fur.

Noble animal or ridiculous-looking beast, depending your point of view, the moose is the largest of the deer family.

 All the warm summer long, the woodchuck-a fat and lazy fellow-brouses near the dorrway to its burrow.

  COATIMUNDI

 WOODCHUCK

Nature has provided the slow-moving, inquisite with a suit of armor to help protect it.The Armadillo is a good swimmer but doesn't like to swim. If a stream it wants to cross is not to wide it walks across the bottom and up the farther bank.

 The coatimundi is a cousin of the raccoon, with a longer tail, and a slimmer body and an elongated snout. If you see a single coati in the wild it is probably male, since the male travels alone except in a short mating season.