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Definitely a costume.

In fact, I know a local man who is a bit of a camera trap fanatic who had his wife dress up in a gorilla suit.

He has his camera trap set up over a carcass of a road-killed deer.

He has had some very interesting photos, including a fight between his feist dog and a red-tailed hawk.

For a joke, he had his wife dress up in a gorilla suit and stand over the deer carcass. He then took the photos e-mailed them to all of his family and friends, some of whom believed it was authentic.

The camera trap leaves a time stamp, and his wife was photographed in the gorilla suit on two different occasions that were nearly two weeks apart.  Because he had photos from two different dates, one of the people who believed it was real warned him to stay out of the woods because “That thing is staying around there!”

BTW, has anyone heard of the famous Ivan Marx footage of a limping bigfoot? Marx also had his wife dress up as a sasquatch and filmed her limping around.

You can see  his entire crappy documentary on youtube!

Do I believe in bigfoot? Not really.

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This might be the funniest thing ever!

The full video!

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I can find only the first part of the series online.

But it is a very good series!

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This is sad.

But she did get another kitten.

And named him Lips-Lipstick.

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I’ll take the 5 golden retrievers, but I can only imagine how much they would shed and how much mud they would track in.

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Olduvai George has a nice depiction of one, in case you wanted a closer look at that mask.

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This is either a long-tailed weasel (Mustela frenata)  or a stoat/ermine/short-tailed weasel (Mustela erminea).  The ermine has a more northerly distribution than the the long-tailed weasel, but both species do have have some overlap in their ranges.

They are easier to tell apart in the summer coat. Long-tailed weasels have a more yellow belly than the ermine does (and their tails are long and whip-like).

I have a specimen of what I believe to be a long-tailed weasel in my freezer. It was killed in Central West Virginia in late October. Its legs and belly are white, but its dorsal area and head are still dark brown.

It could be a stoat that wandered a bit to the south, but because of its more southerly location, my money is on it being a long-tailed weasel.

I think the animal in the video is a long-tailed weasel, not an ermine/stoat.

Not all populations of ermine/stoat turn white in winter, although I think all North American populations do.  Long-tailed weasels that live in the southern parts of their range don’t turn white.

The long-tails live only in the Americas, and they make it as far south as Bolivia. Somehow, I don’t think the Bolivian weasels turn white.

One thing this animal is not is a ferret.

Update: Here’s a Mustela erminea in its winter coat. I think we have a long-tailed weasel in the video.