Wild Moments - Wild about weasels!

US SORT OUT THOSE FURRY PREDATORS IN TODAY'S WILD MOMENT REPORTER: THE WEASEL FAMILY. IT'S A BIG ONE, WITH 5 SPECIES HERE IN PENNSYLVANIA. MOST MEMBERS OF THE WEASEL FAMILY, LIKE THIS RIVER OTTER, HAVE LONG, SINUOUS BODIES AND AND SORTING THEM OUT CAN BE CONFUSING. LOIS SMITH WAS CONFUSED BY THIS ON YOU'RE IN THE RIGHT FAMILY. MUSTELIDAE, THE WEASEL FAMILY. THIS FAMILY MEMBER IS A MINK HERE'S ANOTHER MINK CAUGHT ON CAMERA BY WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER BOB HENCH OF HERSHEY. MOST LIKELY TO SEE MINK AROUND WATER. MINK WEIGH ABOUT 1 TO 2 POUNDS ABOUT THE SIZE OF A PET FERRET. THEIR WEASEL COUSINS, FISHER ON THE OTHER HAND, ARE MUCH LARGER DON'T FISH. CLIMBERS. THIS ONE'S CLIMBING MISSY BLASSER'S BIRD FEEDER TO FEAST ON SUET. SIZE-WISE, THINK OF A FOX WITH SHORT LEGS HERE'S A GOOD COMPARISON, A FISHER, ON THE LEFT, SHARING VENISON WITH A RACCOON A BIG MALE FISHER CAN WEIGH 10 TO 12 POUNDS, ABOUT THE SIZE OF A RED FOX. HERE IN THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY MINK NUMBERS HAVE INCREASED QUITE A BIT SINCE I WAS A KID. AND, AWAY BACK THEN, FISHERS WERE NONEXISTENT. THESE DAYS, THEY'RE POPPING UP ALL OVER THE STATE. THEY GOT QUITE A JUMPSTART IN THE MID-1990'S, WHEN THE GAME COMMISSION, PENN STATE, AND FROSTBURG UNIVERSITY TEAMED UP TO RELEASE 190 FISHERS AT THREE LOCATIONS IN PENNSYLVANIA'S NORTHERN TIE SO, YOUR CHANCES OF ASKING T FISHER-OR-MINK QUESTION ARE THE BEST THEY'VE BEEN IN MORE THAN A CENTURY. I'M JACK HUBLEY, NEWS SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. THEY HAVE MADE A DRAMATIC COMEBACK IN THE LAST 20 YEARS AFTER DISAPPEARING IN THE EARLY KIM: IF YOU HAVE A WILDLIFE