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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Oikos is a journal issued by the Nordic Ecological Society and is one of the leading peer-reviewed journals in ecology. Oikos ...

New Zealand has announced an ambitious plan to rid the island of small predators decimating their flightless bird population. New Zealand Prime Minister John Key announced an ambitious plan in July ...

Social dominance and interference are two components included in hypotheses attempting to explain stoat-weasel coexistence. In this study we tested predictions related to 1) stoat dominance, 2) the ...

This article is brought to you by our exclusive subscriber partnership with our sister title USA Today, and has been written by our American colleagues. It does not necessarily reflect the view of The ...

New Zealand's rarest birds have seemingly come back from the dead. For decades, they were thought to be extinct until tiny populations were rediscovered, the holdouts that survived against the odds.

NEWS BRIEF New Zealand wants to eradicate invasive animals so it can save its indigenous birds. The predators—weasels, possums, stoats, and rats—were first brought ashore by the Maoris an estimated ...

The official mascots for the next Winter Games, being held two years from now in Milan-Cortina, Italy, will be a pair of, well... weasels known for their luxurious winter pelts, who hang out with a ...