Stoats are small predators capable of killing prey larger than themselves, including rabbits. During some encounters, rabbits appear frozen as stoats perform rapid, erratic movements often described ...

Stoats were imported to New Zealand from Britain. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons King’s research concludes that economic pressures and cultural assumptions ought to have outweighed the concerns ...

COAL ISLAND, New Zealand — If you wanted to design the perfect predator, the stoat would be hard to beat. Ali King calls it the shark of the New Zealand bush, and it’s a fitting description. Stoats ...

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 ...

British stoats suffered a dramatic loss in genetic diversity in the 20th Century but extinct British genes were preserved in the stoat population of New Zealand, a new study has found. The research ...