Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Válogatott tanulmányok IV. - Natura Somogyiensis 15. / Miscellanea 4. (Kaposvár, 2009)

Lánszki József - Valkár Béla: Adatok a Magyarországon élő nyest, közönséges görény és menyét külső morfológiájához

Lanszki J. & Valkár B.: Stone marten, polecat and weasel

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P<0.05 0.001), except of hind foot length (P=0.063). In juvenile age group of polecat the mean BW in males (n=5) and females (n=5) was 769±90.6 g and 585±38.7 g, BL 370±19.2 mm and 341±6.7 mm, TL 152Ü2.1 mm and 134±5.2 mm, respectively. Adult polecats were slightly heavier than those which measured in a Czech-Slovakian study (males: 1131.0 g, females 653.9 g; Wolsan 1993), BL was slightly shorter, but in other parameters data were similar.

Appraisable sample number of weasel was available only from males (Table 1). BW of the two studied females was 36 g, and 42 g, BL of bigger female was 153 mm, TL: 43 mm and FL: 14 mm. BW of two juvenile females was 31.7 and 33.5 g, BL: 149 and 150 mm, TL: 41 and 40 mm. Adults were slightly heavier than weasels studied in Germany (males: 67.7 g, females: 39.6 g; Reichstein 1993). Other parameters were also larger, but similar to the study of Széky (1972) performed in Hungary (males: 214 mm, females: 176 mm).

More males than females were studied, the sex ratio (male : female) both for the stone marten and polecat was also 62:38%. Most of studied animals were adult, the ratio between adult and juvenile age groups was 77:23% for the stone marten and 71:29% for the polecat.

In conclusion, suppletory, new results arisen from this study are utilizable in management programs of carnivores.

Acknowledgements

Thanks for the help in collection of animal carcasses.