The long-tailed weasel kills by leaping or pouncing on an animal, severing major blood vessels in the region of the throat or the spinal column at the base of the skull with a series of quick bites.

or the connotations of the Shakespearian phrase ‘weasel words’. But the manner in which they dispatch their prey doesn’t exactly help their cause: like big cats, weasels kill their victims with a bite ...