The short-tailed weasel, or stoat, starts off with a summer ... chest and throat and gradually spreads toward its back, leaving a black tip at the end of its tail. These white weasels blend ...

This is the only other member of the weasel family in the Adirondacks to develop a white coat in winter (December-March or April). The terminal one-fourth to one-third of the tail remains black ...

Link Olson holds the skull of a short-tailed weasel that a mountaineer donated to the University of Alaska Museum of the North. (Photo provided by University of Alaska Museum of the North ...