A Quick Rundown
📽 by @megbargs
Fisher chases down and captures a hare
Despite their common name, fishers rarely eat fish. They're omnivorous when it suits their needs, but all other times they are primarily carnivores, preying on snowshoe hares, squirrels, rodents, birds, reptiles. Fishers are among the rare predators capable of successfully hunting and killing porcupines. Where most others just leave them be, viewing them as more work than they are worth, fishers make easy work of them, achieving this feat by attacking the porcupine's face, then flipping it over to consume its underbelly.
Fishers are in the same family as martens, wolverines, badgers, weasels, stoats/ermines, ferrets, minks, river otters, and sea otters.
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