Difference between revisions of "Weasel"
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Jeremiah4-22 (talk | contribs) (biblical uncleanness) |
Jeremiah4-22 (talk | contribs) m |
||
| Line 11: | Line 11: | ||
| − | [[Category: | + | [[Category:Carnivores]] |
[[Category:Biblical animals]] | [[Category:Biblical animals]] | ||
Revision as of 20:45, April 29, 2007
A small, carnivorous mammal of the Northern hemisphere, the weasel is renowned for its cunning (from which comes the old expression, "cunning as a sack full of weasels") and its savagery, often killing prey several times its own size.
There are several types of weasel, mainly separated by geographic range, and a number of similar small animals, such as the mink, the polecat and the stoat.
The Bible declares weasels to be unclean:
These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind, Leviticus 11:29 (KJV)