Even devoted gardeners rarely see one of these animals. The Bay Area may not have prairie dogs and the endangered black-footed ferret that used to hunt them, but we have gophers almost as big as ...

Between 2022 and 2023, researchers placed 486 camera traps in sites across the central and eastern United States where they knew weasels lived. They baited those traps with seven types of lures to see ...

- [Narrator] They are also testing different baits to draw weasels to the traps. - Sweetmeat predator baits. Give that a good whiff. - Oh, oh, okay. If I'm a weasel, I'm probably gonna go to that one.

When monitoring the health of mammal populations, scientists often use camera traps to observe the animals in their habitats. But weasels are so sneaky they’re rarely caught on camera – leaving ...