Sable (Martes Zibellina) is a beautiful predatory animal with a valuable fur. He is the closest relative of the forest cunits. Very similar to it outwardly, the habits also partially coincide. The skin of this animal has a high value. The duration of life in wildlife is no more than 8 years.
At the place of habitat, the following subspecies distinguish between fur and his thickness:
- sayan;
- west Siberian;
- sakhalin;
- barguzinsky;
- yenisei;
- kamchatsky sable.
Sable belongs to the family of Kunich, but this is not the largest representative of the mammalian class. The length of the body of an adult beast reaches 60 cm. Females are always a little less males. It weighs no more than 2 kg. The head has a wedge-shaped form and visually looks big. The muzzle is pointed, the ears of the triangular shape, large and with a wide base.
Paws of animal meek, which makes his back a little deployed. Wide and thick fur covered with fur. In winter, the fur is covered with even paw pads and claws. M. ecr The beast is always fluffy, soft, thick, coat of fur - monophonic. The torso of dark brown color, paws and tail is slightly darker, and the fur on the head is brighter than on the body.
In the cold season, the fur takes a darker color, and in warm - light. There is no pronounced spots in the throat area. If it is observed, then only in the blurring form. It has acute flair and hearingthat allows him to hide from enemies and successfully hunt. But his eyesight is not acute enough.
The photo clearly shows how an adult sable looks like.
Animal habitat
Sablet can be found from the Urals to the Pacific Ocean. His habitat is the entire Far East and Siberia of Russia.
Sablet can be found in other countries:
Intensive fishery led to such a limited area. Sable habitat is less than half of the territoryon which he was distributed back in the last century.
The beast in coniferous taiga. Highly he likes fir, cedar, spruce. In this taiga, there are usually a lot of land covered with moss, littered with windshields, is quite humid.
Sable can still live:
- In deciduous forests on the East Siberian Plateau.
- Among Kurumov, if the mountain areas are adjacent to the taiga.
Kuruma are rocky placers, overgrown with shrub.
What is sable?
Sable - a predatory mammal. He likes to eat:
- mile-like rodents;
- chipmunks;
- crots;
- shreds;
- birds (sparrows, partridges, tetherov).
Slavs can eat protein. Adult males love to eat hares.
The photo shows how sobat hunts for the prey.
Depending on the time of year food of this animal can become a large animal. In the summer, he usually waits for the spawning of passing fish, if he lives near the major river.
From the roast feed, this animal prefers:
- pine nuts;
- berries lingers and rowan;
- honey wild bees - special delicacy.
Interestingly, he prefers not to assemble the nuts independently, but simply steals reserves made by voles, squirrels, cedings and chipmunks.
Natural Sable Enemies
On this animals and birds are not hunting for food. But the ermine and columns comply with the competition at the time of hunting. They too hunt for mice-like rodents. When meeting with one of these his enemies, Sobol is even able to leave his prey to destroy his enemy when he will switch attention to food.
The risk group among animals includes old individuals, lost agility and speed of movement, as well as young animals. They can get any predatory beast that they are much larger. Moreover, sobly can attack hawks and air owls. On Earth, a risk and bears are posed for them. But the main enemy of the animal is a person. He destroys this animal because of a beautiful and expensive fur.
Wild animal behavior
Hunting the animal can at any time of the day. He loves to move on the ground. It rarely rises on the trees, and in the water he jumps in extreme cases. Per day he can run over 3 km. The length of the run is much increased in winter. In search of food, he has to lead a nomadic lifestyle. In summer, it reduces the run, since there is a chance to stumble upon a killed major beast.
Traces of the beast in the snow are distinctly visible in the photo.
Sable allocates for itself a plot of territory, where a long period of time hunts. If there is enough food, then the animal will build a hole and protrudes the paths from the housing to the hunting places. Near the major killed animals, he builds temporary holes, narrowing the circle of his movement from the hole to the place of food.
In winter, the wild animal can move under the layer of snow. It may not go to the surface during the week, making the tunnel in the thicker.
The nests for themselves to arrange the animal can in the wrappers and under the roots of large trees, in rocky places.
Reproduction
For all mammals, kunihih mammals takes place in the warm season (June - July). Kids appear in spring. Pregnancy duration - up to 300 days. The female for sticking off the offspring prepares the hollow. Wallows a dwelling with moss, grass, hay and wool rodents previously destroyed.
The animals are born small (up to 30 cm long), deaf and blind. One litter contains from 1 to 7 puppies. Already in a month of the Cooks begin to hear, and a little later - to see. On the second month of the life of the kids begin to feed meat food. An independent life of young people starts in the summer when the next gon is beginning in female.
Sable hunting methods
At this animal, hunters arrange traps, but they can hunt with dogs-husky. Dogs just the beast drive on a tree, where the hunter shoots it. But if the beast hits in the thickets, it will be impossible to find it. Then networks are settled and the animal is traversed with the help of probe.
Taming of a sable and recovery of numbers
The animal is fairly easy to tease. Very much reminds the cat in keeping it at home. Quickly get used to households. In captivity, the beast can live up to 18 years. To preserve mammals, they are bred in reserves, followed by their resettlement in forest areas. The fishery of the beast on these plot is prohibited for a certain period of time.
To determine the place of release to freedom of a sable plays the role of food, nesting sites, predators-enemies and competitors of the beast for food.
Sable breeding in captivity
Divide a sable in captivity is very difficult. This the animal is very mobileAnd he needs a large territory for life. The cell must be equipped with a reliable casing, the windows should be tightened with an iron grid. The beast this very cuty and the castle will open without difficulty.
To create comfortable conditions for life, you can put into the cell toy from plastics, animal loves to play. When breeding a sable of choirs, the female after mating will show aggression to the male, the beasts immediately disappear.
There is a surprisingly nice forest animal with an adorable cute face and very beautiful fur coat. He lives in a taiga. There is a huge set of his varieties. One of them can be found from this article. This is a barguzin - an animal (family of Soboley). Consider and compare the types of sobility living in Russian expanses.
Sable in nature: varieties
Soboli are divided into subspecies. We give a brief comparative characteristic of some of them.
Tobolsky Sable has a rather large size: the length of the body together with the head is from 370 to 510 mm (males are larger than females); Tail length - from 130 to 170 mm. This is the brightest of all subsidiaries. Completed from the Urals to r. Obi.
A little smaller and darker Tobolsky - Kuznetsky Sable. Body length - 375-480 mm; Tail 120-162 mm long. Fur Color Light Altai Sable. Habitat - Western slopes of Alatau (Kuznetsk district) and Tomi system.
Altai is characterized by larger body sizes and skulls and darker color. The length of the body reaches 380-490 mm, the tail - from 120 to 176 mm. From yellowish to dark brown color varies the painting of its fur. He lives in the taiga sections of Altai. Also there is also a barguzin - an animal, acclimatized in these areas. It is a mixer with the Altai Sobat.
A huge many subspecies of this fluffy animal dwells throughout the entire northeastern part of Russia. Yenisei, Angarsky, Tungusky, Sayan, Vitimsky, Chiri, Yakutsky, Kamchatka, Far Eastern and others. Its names are talking about their habitats.
It should be noted that the most rare fur in the world is a white sable skuff, which occasionally meets in the deaf Siberian taiga.
Barguzin (Animal): Description
Barguzin is a subspecies of a sable, distinguished by relatively small sizes and darker coloring fur. According to these characteristics, it is inferior only to Vitim's Celebrations. His habitat: Baikal Coast (Eastern); Ridge Barguzinsky from the tribodov r. Barguzin (right) to watershed with p. Angara (top). Very modest and quiet animal Barguzin. Its dimensions are very small.
The body together with the head has a length of about 395-420 mm in males and 360-410 mm - in females. Male tail length - from 122 to 155 mm, and females - from 120 to 145 mm.
Sable sable in Baikal forests.
A little about the Barguzinsky Reserve
Typically, taiga fauna is presented in there are some features associated with mountain terrain and location near Lake Baikal.
Ground vertebrals are represented by more than 40 types of mammals, 280 types of birds, 6 types of reptiles, 3 types of amphibians, more than 40 species of fish and 790 with extensive identified types of insects.
Of all the mammals, more than 80% are forest inhabitants (among them and Barguzin - an animal causing quite great interest). There are animals in these forests and rare areas for these areas: whitewash proteins, burzubs (more common in Asia and in the north of Europe).
Amaso -alearctic species (except columns, Kabarga, Asian Chipmunk and Lemming. Palearctic species - Deer (Izüter) Noble. There are food alpine, and voles. A significant proportion of forest inhabitants make up wolves, foxes, caresses, wolverines, mountain, lynx, hares Belyaki, Moose, etc. live here and types of Beringian fauna: Grinding black and beautiful reindeer.
His variety varieties
Venate and warm fur gave the nature of Sable Barguzin. The animal has a fur, in color varies from dark to light brown. And on his neck is a marvelous spot.
It should be noted that the darker color of the skins is valued above. Sable Barguzinsky, inhabitants in the forests of the Baikal, is the darkest from all animals of this species found in Siberia. The fur for many of his characteristics is superior to the quality of the skins of his fellow. He has a soft, thick, silky and lightweight.
In this regard, a pretty interest causes a cute barguzin - an animal whose fur has greater value at the international auctions of the Ferry.
Moreover, the variations of the fur color have their own singular names: fur - this is the brightest coloring (Palevy or sandy-yellow) and cheap; The head is the darkest (almost black), more valuable and expensive.
Intermediate shades are: a brothey (brown tone with a dark strip on the back); Headters (brighter sides and a large bright throat spot).
Finally
Cute cute fluffy animal, pleasing an eye with an adorable charming face, has the right to life, like all that nature created. I would like a person to do not destroy this amazing creature in pursuit of his valuable skirt.
Like other subspecies of a sable family, this animal has a valuable fur and is the object of mining of hunters for the fur. In the market, its skins are valued more expensive than other sables, because they are distinguished by special quality - durability, softness, ease, dense and silkiness. In more detail about the lifestyle of Barguzin, it is described in the article and the photo below.
Barguzin is a kind of sable living in the forests in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Garguzinsky Ridge and on the Eastern Baikal Coast. An animal is an acclimatized grace of the Altai Sable in this locality. Barguzin has an extended body, short strong paws, an elongated face with wide ears. From other types of Sable Barguzin differs in a smaller size:
- the length of the male body is 39-42 cm, the tail is 12-15 cm;
- female body length - 36-42 cm, 12-14.5 cm;
- weight - 900-1200 g
The family of the Sobility is represented by different species, but Barguzin among them is the most valuable. Its fur is painted in brown tones of varying degrees of saturation, on the throat there is a bright spot, the head is lighter body.
Attention! At the auctions of the Ferry Barguzin skins of almost black color are valued more expensive.
Because of active hunting in the past, in the wildlife, the Barguzin Sable is found primarily on the territory of the Barguzinsky reserve. There is practically no on other sites. For use for industrial purposes, Barguzins are bred on the beversers artificially. Their skins are used for sewing fur coats, manto, hats and collars.
As Zverek lives
In Nature, the Barguzin sable lives in a wet taiga more often, consisting of thickets of fir, cedar and spruce, shrubs. It settles in the dupes and under the roots of trees, norahs formed by naturally, gorges. One animal, as a rule, has several houses at the same time - constant and temporary. They linked his nest with moss or hay .. The animal is distinguished by a large cleanness, arranging the toilet in separately. In one place, the animal lives for about 2-3 years, then replaces it.
Barguzin serves as food kharzam, large owls, hawks, wolves and bear. Its competitors in the food chain are columns and ermine, also feed on small rodents.
Barguzin is very moving and trap, hunting at night. He easily runs through the snow cover, fleeing from predators, chooses difficult trails, in search of food is able to overcome 3-20 km. In winter, the animal is able to create tunnels under the snow, without leaving the surface to 7 days in a row.
The animal clums clumsily climes on the tree, but deftly jumps from one to another, overcoming the distances of 3-4 m. It floats badly, so the water does not like, but can hunt fish during spawning. The average life expectancy of Barguzin in nature is 8 years.
Barguzin falls in June and July, the young females are carrying about 300 days. Kids are born in spring blind and deaf, only a month later they begin to see, hear even later. In 1 litter Samka-Barguzin brings 1-4 puppies. From the second month of life, she begins to feed them with meat, completely independent young, becomes mid-summer. During this period, females are again ready for a new gon, the young woman becomes half the year.
What feeds on the barguing sable
Barguzin - a predatory animal featuring omnivorous, good scent and hearing, smelting. He deepends her prey even under a thick layer of snow. In the wild, the basis of its diet is the ripe and moles, as well as minor rodents - mice, chipmunks, food, earther, proteins. A predator hunts and behind the night under the snow, plughary and tetherov, sparrows. In the hungry periods of Barguzin, it feeds the fish-thrown on the bank and Padalu, as well as taiga honey and vegetable food:
- lingonberry;
- blueberries;
- rowan;
- cloudberry.
Attention! Barguzin does not collect self-nuts, and steals from stocks made by squirrels, chipmunks and other animals.
Growing a Barguzin sable in captivity, it provides a varied and balanced diet, including meat, vegetable and dairy products, vitamin supplements. In captivity, the animal lives for 18-20 years.
To preserve this type of Sobility, they are bred in captivity, and then settle in the reserve and in other territories. The process of artificial breeding of Barguzin is complicated, as being locked in cells, it loses the ability to reproduce.
Barguzin: video
Sable - an amazing animal! Movable, clever, graceful predator with a long, like all cuns, body and short legs. The triangular head with wide ears, fluffy lush tail and curious eyes make it a miracle of nature just irresistible. In the summer, Sobol seems to be pierced and slim - who dresses in fur when heat? But in winter it is a real king of Taiga. Luxurious thick soft fur coat, almost black color with a slightly bluish tint, is valued on the fur market on gold weight.
Zoologists allocate up to 17 subspecies of these predators, which differ in size, quality and color of wool. Fear of Barguzinsky Sable, inhabiting Taiga from the east coast of Baikal to the upper hangary, the most valuable and beautiful. First, it is the darker, secondly, very soft and silky. Other subspecies: Sayansky, Sakhalin, Yenisei - have a coarsest, light and short wool. Of course, all these features depend primarily on the living conditions of the animals, because the fur coat for a sable is not at all the fact that for our fashionistas.
Too valuable
Unfortunately, the amazing beauty and the quality of a sable fur served his owner of a bad service. Skirts of animals, mined by Siberian hunters, tens of thousands were taken to Europe. Their price was so high that the revenue money was the basis of the budget of the Russian state in the XVII century. I mined someone who could and wanted everywhere and everywhere. As a result, by the beginning of the 1930s, this Taiga miracle was almost no left in many places. Sobol survived only where it was specially protected.
Now the situation has changed. Protection, temporary prohibition of hunting, fighting poachers led to the fact that the disappearance of a sable no longer threatens. In addition, in nature it is now mined much less frequently, because they learned how to breed on beverserums.
Experts believe that today "Barguzinskaya Sobol" is a storeholder the goods as biological. The reason is that by the end of the 20th century, the animal settled almost all suitable taiga places for him, from Western Siberia to the Far East. Protection measures and regular editions of the Sobrachi in nature were led to this, in the territory where they were exterminated earlier. The area of \u200b\u200bthe species has become almost solid, and to highlight the area where Barguzinsky sable lives as a separate subspecies, is no longer possible.
Fluffy nomad
Sable - the animal taiga. He is good in the dark forests, where the cedars grow, fir, ate. He lives in bright larchs, and in pine forests, everywhere preferring litters with a large number of trees, stones, dense shrubs. Upborn from a sable is bad, although at the danger, of course, it will take it on the tree. The beast prefers to run on the ground, deftly schnyryryi among the trunks. There, under the filtered roots or in the wrappers of the fallen trees, he arranges his asylum. A cozy warm nest, lined with dry grass, it uses very carefully: the toilet is located elsewhere, in a special hole nearby.
By your chants, this small predator is also unusual. He chooses a certain portion of Taiga and lives on it for 2-3 years, plans constant holes and temporary asylum. Moreover, it is precisely, and does not make himself: Sable masterfully uses emptiness under roots, old hollows or caves in stones.
On his site, the animal is paving trails, the border marks. Aliens males, as well as Gornostayev and especially speakers immediately expelled. This is understandable, because these predators eat almost the same and the same - why to endure a competitor under the side? Where there are special observations for the Sobility (for example, in the Baikal Taiga), scientists found that until the restoration of the sobular population of columns in these places was the usual beast, and now they will not find him in the afternoon. But with his nearest relative, the kunitsa animal coexists perfectly. The yurkaya predator uses mostly the top tier of the forest, and Sobol - the Earth, therefore, there is nothing to share, in places where both species live, you can even meet their hybrid - Kidas.
After a few years, Sobol can suddenly change the habitat. It goes sometimes quite far away, for 150-200 km, even overcoming the mountain ranges, and again masters a new place - a real fidget!
There is no meal a lot
By the type of sable food, you can be called omnivorous. Of course, the basis of his diet is the living prey: voles, earthmock, food, less often squirrels and chipmunks. Large males can catch a hare, and especially lucky hunters sometimes attack even the taiga fangy deer - Kabargu. Some beasts are successfully catching huge compared to their own gauges and thermis, nightlife in snowy holes. Predators do not harm and Padalu, we are glad to eat smooth fish, thrown ashore.
At the time of ripening of cedar nuts, this vegetable, but very nutritious and satisfying the feed occupies most of the sobular diet. Forest berries are going to move: blueberries, lingonberries, cloudberries - and bee honey, often with bees.
Sack hunts most often in the dark day. If food is a bit, then per night the animal can run in search of food up to 20 km.
Family rituals
About the breeding of a sable should be said especially. Previously, it was believed that pregnancy in females last 2 months. Such a conclusion did the scientists because at the end of winter the beasts there is a gon, and at the end of April - Mae are born by the Socialists. With a more attentive study, Zoologists found out that winter gon is false, and fertilization at this time does not occur. Real "Weddings" by a sable - in the summer. Fertilized egg cell is preserved for a long time in the genital female and only to spring starts to share. This phenomenon is called the latent phase of pregnancy, it is also in some other animals.
The female of the sable touching the blind, bare and completely helpless kids. At this time, it is not necessary to approximately approach her dwelling - will attack, without thinking, even on the dog! On average, young in the litter a little, 3-4, and they live in shelter, under her mother's supervision, about 1.5 months. Later, the funny clumsy beasts gradually begin to go out and get acquainted with the outside world. By July, the time of the next real Gon, they leave the family and begin an independent life.
In the apartment as in the forest
To tame this mobile shoutering animal is quite easy, but only if he gets to a person at an early age. Here are just some habits for urban apartment are very uncomfortable. For example, the animal loves to hide "yummy" in the most unexpected places: under the owner's pillow, in his clothes or on the shelves with products. And yummy, according to a sable, is, for example, a piece of not quite fresh fish or meat. Imagine the reaction of the owner, which discovered in its front trousers well the "gift" well? Flower pots are also rarely worried about the sobular games, as well as other things lying or standing on the shelves. So, perhaps, you should not start this animal at home, his place is in the taiga.
Sable in the food chain
Sable enemies are relatively few. They can eat feathery predators (for example, various types of owls, especially the largest of them - Filin), a bear (accidentally excavating the nest with a young), a large Cleannie - Harza. The predator itself eats and silent rodents, and other small mammals, and vegetable food (berries, nuts).
Sable meals
Lamberry
Forest shrub. Berries and Leaves Barberry have medicinal properties. They are used both in medicine and in cooking. Many forest birds and animals in the fall with pleasure eating tart berries. Barbecue began to cultivate in the middle of the XVIII century, and in the XX-M of its plantation appeared in many countries of the world, including Roshchi.
PINE NUTS
The erroneous name of the seed of cedar pine. To real nuts - the fruits of flowering plants - they do not have relationships, but externally similar. A large amount of fats, amino acids, vitamins make them exclusively valuable products for taiga animals, and for humans. Everything goes through: seeds themselves, cedar oil, cake, crushed shell. Interestingly, nuts of nuts has the same refractive factor as glass, so it has long been used in microscopy.
Red Polevka
One of the types of rodents of the genus of forest voles. She is really reddish, with a noticeable red okey. It is inhabited by easels with dense herbaceous cover, the dwellings arrange voids between the roots, in low dupes, sometimes in the buildings of a person. It also gives the north of two rating per year, and in more southern parts of the range - and all four. On average, in each of them 6-7 cubs. The main feed is the seeds of coniferous trees.
SHREW
The total name of several types of small mammals of earthmamoye family. This animal with a size of a small mouse, but on biological characteristics does not look like it. Eats everything, with which it can cope: beetles, grasshoppers, even lizards to mice. Interestingly, the earth wash has no day and night: during the day she has up to 200 or more periods of activity intermitted by a short sleep.
Northern food
Mammalian Treasure Treasured. A small animal, no more than 20 cm long, with small round ears. It dwells on stone places, the cripples, close to the yields of rocks. At the same time, very demanding to the size of the block: too large or too small it is not suitable. For the winter makes the reserves of hay and other feeds, which often eat other inhabitants of the taiga: deer, cabaggia, hares and even bears.
SIBERIAN. Or asian, chipmunk
The only representative of the kind of chipmunks living in Eurasia. Sometimes his lady is distinguished in a separate genus. The chipmuncture is easy to learn on black stripes on the back, walking along the whole body. Like many other rodents, it sets food for the winter: nuts, dried mushrooms and berries, acorns and other grains, carrying them in graval bags. Sobat not only eats the chipmunks themselves, but also robs their storerooms.
Sable is a pretty predatory mammal from the Kunih family. This predator is very deft. Most of the life spends on Earth, but if necessary, perfectly climbs on trees. Moves with jumps, which can be in a length of half a half or more. Sweat has a well-developed rumor and smell, but the vision is much weaker. Sobol walks perfectly on loose snow cover, not falling into a lot of snow.
Photo: Young Sable. 
Photo: Young Sable.
The fur at the animal is soft, fluffy, thick, the poetma is appreciated by people, which is why there were constant problems with a person.
Sable wool color. And even has different names:
- The so-called "head" usually happens black. This part, by the way, is usually highly appreciated. And products from it are much more expensive.
- Another option is "fur". Such a color is light. There may be a sandy, yellowish shade or fawn. The cheapest.
- There is still a collar color. This intermediate color between the first two. Such a skin is a browned shade. A dark belt is distinguished on the back, and the sides on the contrary are light. There is a highlighted thicker spot.
In winter, Sobolny fur is a little lighter, and in the summer - darker.
Where Sable lives
For a sable, the main habitat is coniferous taiga. Soboli prefers the trees of fir, spruce and cedar, of which, of which the so-called black taiga is mostly formed, is usually formed. To a greater extent, she was littered with windy and overgrown with Mkhami.
Typically, Sobol settle down in the kents and the upper reaches of the mountain rivers. But can settle and towards the ground - in the strokes of the staber, on the stony places. In rare cases, it climbs into the crowns of the trees a lair in Duples.
What sable feeds
As already mentioned, sable is a predator. The basis of its feed base is rodents. In his diet, they enter the food and, mostly, red-grade (and in the southern part - red-gray). They assign the main meaning. Also sable can attack a hare or protein. Sobat destroys several millions of protein in the region for a year. He eats and birds, such as: Rybolchik, or for example, degrahae. In the spring hunts on spawning fish. For hunting, it usually chooses the night or evening, but can go in search of mining and day.
But besides animal food, sable not to taste and plant food. He loves: cedar nuts, blueberry berries, lingonberries, rosehip. Maybe there is a cherry or currants.
Sable in the "Krasnoyarsk Poles" reserve. 
Sable in the "Krasnoyarsk Poles" reserve. Sable breeding
Small sobols grow and become ready for reproduction aged two or three years. And then multiply can already up to thirteen or fifteen years. They make nests in the dupes of the wounded trees or under roots, as well as in stone places. Fall in the summer. This is usually June - July. The period of pregnancy lasts up to 290 days. Therefore, they are puppy in approximately in April - May. The litter can contain both a single puppy of a sable, and to reach seven young.
During the waiting, the female will be seized prepares shelter. She places one of the constant holes or hollows. In order for the kids to be comfortable and warm, it looks housing with hay, grass or moss. And sometimes uses the wool of destroyed animals.
Small sobats appear on the light blind and deaf. At about a monthly age, the contest appears hearing, and in a week he begins to see. Already starting with the second month of life, the lips will be seized, the female begins to bring the meat food as a feeder, thereby putting them the skills and habits of hunting.
Weightful animals become independent of the summer.
The greatest population of the sable is now celebrated in the Taiga part of Russia. These animals fall into the souls of darkened thick forests, as well as Kedrachi. In addition, you can see in Japan on the island of Hokkaido in Japan.
Intense fishery led to such limited area. At the beginning of the 21st century, the area of \u200b\u200bthe Sabel Area was quite insignificant, making up not more than a tenth of what was in former times.
Photo of a sable. 
Sable on the branch. 
Photo: Sable on the branch. 
Photo: Sable on the branch. 
Photo: Sable on the branch. 
Photo: Sable on the branch. 
Photo: Sable on a tree. Momsky Ridge, Yakutia, June 2016. 
Photo: Sable.
