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Перевод: polecat
[существительное] хорек ; хорь черный
Тезаурус:
- The ferret is a member of the weasel family, and the weasel, stoat, polecat and ferret are all animals with a natural hunting instinct and are not deterred by working underground.
- Who was "a semi-housetrained polecat"?
- The fact that the polecat with young was sighted three years ago by a grumpy shepherd looking for a lost lamb at 5.30 a.m. on a March morning, two miles away from post number seven, is irrelevant.
- Putting two and two together, junior quite rightly expects there to be polecat with young hanging around post number seven, waiting to be petted by the children and providing the adults with a photo opportunity.
- The domestic Ferret, used for catching rabbits, is closely related to the Polecat, which indeed may be its wild ancestor.
- A. vole molar from mustelid assemblage, either stoat or polecat (18); B. enlargement of same (56); C. same specimen showing collapse of enamel into digested dentine core (38); D. murid molar digested by margay (13); E. enlargement of same (142); F. shrew molars with superficial digestion from bat-eared fox assemblage (20); G. enlargement of same (112); H. vole molar with extensive superficial digestion from red fox assemblage (24); 1.
- Polecat
- A tiny grubby finger will be pointing at a poor pen-and-ink line drawing of a "polecat with young", set against a blue number seven.
- The polecat and its grown family will know to keep as far away from the path and its numbered posts as possible, except in the dead of night when they can sniff around and pick up some bits of Kit-Kat.
- The exact origins of the ferret can only be guesswork, but either descendants of the polecat line or variations on the resultant interbreeding between stoats and polecats may have given us the ferret we know today.
- Scats may be accumulated outside den entrances (Poole, 1970), and a very large assemblage of polecat scats has been collected from an area less than two metres square outside a den in Rhosgogh Bog in mid-Wales.
- "Go and have a bath you putrid polecat, I screamed
- There will be no polecat with young at post number seven on the nature trail.
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