Rex Trulove
The ermine is also known as the short-tailed weasel or the stoat. Technically, it isn’t an ermine unless it is in its white winter phase as the one here shows. In the summer, these animals are mostly brown with lighter colored bellies and a black tip on the tail. The summer to winter coat variation is tremendous.
cute is nice they lookinf for something
It could have heard the photographer and hasn’t yet seen him.
Looks rare in white. Funny how they are different colors.
It is simply protective coloration. This ermine is easy to see because of the brown background, but in snow, they are almost invisible.