Sable

The sable (Martes Zibellina) is a species of marten which inhabits forest environments primarily in Russia from the Ural mountains throughout Siberia, Eastern Kazakhstan, Northern Mongolia, Korea, and Hokkaido, Japan. Its range in the wild originally extended through European Russia to Poland, Italy, and Scandinavia. There is another species of marten native to Japan called the Japanese marten (Martes Melampus). They became extinct in the Oshima peninsula in Hokkaido.