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Mustela nudipes
Basic stats
Diet
Rodents (including large ones), birds and eggs, lizards, snakes, frogs, insects
Habitat
Forest floor, lowland and hill forest, disturbed to primary
Range
Borneo, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia
Litter size
Reported as 4 in secondary sources, but breeding biology has not actually been studied — treat as unverified
Gestation period
Not studied in the wild
Size
Small (head-body 30–36cm, tail 24–26cm, nearly equal to body length)
Weight
~1kg
A small, slender weasel with a rich orange-brown coat and cream-to-white head, and a long tail nearly as long as its body. One of the least frequently recorded carnivores in Sabah.
A Sabah camera-trap study found this species to be strictly diurnal, with every recorded detection falling in daylight and a peak between 8am and 10am — a genuinely day-active mustelid in a landscape where most similarly sized carnivores are nocturnal. Presumed to hunt rodents and other small vertebrates on the forest floor; its breeding biology has never been formally studied, so reproduction figures found elsewhere online should be treated with caution. Least Concern (IUCN); a rare and opportunistic sighting rather than a planned target.
