Fisher Cat Martes Pennanti

 Adult fishers- light brown to dark blackish-brown fur
 The face, neck, and shoulders are sometimes slightly gray
 Chest area and underside sometimes haves irregular white patches
 Haves a long body with short legs and a long bushy tail
 Males are commonly larger
 Females are usually lighter than a male
 A female’s length range usually half of the length of a males
 A male’s length range is from 37-47 inches and has a weight 6.6-13.2
lbs.
 A female’s length range is from 29 to 37 inches and has a weight of 3.35.5 lbs.
 Mixed hardwood forest , cutover wilderness
Feeding style
Food choices
When attacking porcupines it will
attack the head repeatedly until it is
weakened from protecting itself. It will
first eat the organs and save the rest for
another time
Chipmunks, shrews, snowshoe hares,
and porcupines, fruits, berries, plants
and carrion, and rarely fish
(The fisher is a carnivore and usually
will eat any animal that is smaller than
it)
 Found from Nova Scotia in the east to the Pacific shore of British
Columbia and Alaska
 Can be found as far north as the
Great Slave Lake in the Northwest
Territories and as far south as the
mountains of Oregon.
There are populations in the
Sierra Nevada of California and the
Appalachian Mountains of
West Virginia.
 Starts from March to May
 Average of 3 young in a litter
 Courtship includes tumbling, playing and wrestling
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http://www.fws.gov/mountain-prairie/species/mammals/fisher/
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http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/wildlife/living/living_with_fisher.htm

Burt, William, and Richard Grossenheider. Mammals . Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. Print.
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http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/fisher.htm
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http://www.zooborns.typepad.com/zooborns/ferrets-fishers-polecats/
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http://wren.aps.uoguelph.ca/apsblog/ppriadka/