Why Jamie McAuley gets sent dead stoats in the mail

Lizard feet found intact in a stoat stomach

What an alpine stoat ate for its last meal – skink bodyparts.

boiling up stoat bones.

Jamie McAuley is a Masters student in the University of Otago’s Zoology Department.

He is studying the diets of alpine stoats to help conservation efforts. Trappers send him intact dead stoats, and he is often able to find out what their last meal was - which can be fairly shocking.