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Playful behaviour in relation to family group activity in polecats (Mustelidae)
Five family groups of polecat/ferrets and one group of albino ferrets have been studied over a period of 5 years. Consistent individual differences were found to exist regarding the number of play attacks and play initiations delivered and performance in agility tests. The animals which showed the …
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Changes in the status and distribution of mammals of the order Carnivora in Yorkshire from 1600. County history of the fox, badger, otter, pine marten, stoat, weasel, polecat, American mink, wildcat and domestic cat.
… stoat (Mustela erminea), weasel (M. nivalis), polecat (M. putorius), American mink (M. vison), wildcat (Felis silvestris) and domestic cat (Felis catus). In the case of the domestic cat, questionnaire surveys quantified population sizes and predatory activity in rural, suburban and urban …
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HYSTAR: Hydrology and Sediment Transport Simulation using Time-Area Method
… failed to reproduce runoff for a subwatershed of Polecat Creek Watershed (PCA), where data show that runoff is not immediately responsive to rainfall. Uncertainty analysis revealed that the confidence intervals of the simulated monthly runoff and sediment load corresponded to 9.7 % and 10.2 % of …
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Polecats, Poison, and Prejudice: Naturalized Anti-Judaic Tropes in Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale
<p><em>The Pardoner’s Tale</em>, one of Geoffrey Chaucer’s <em>Canterbury Tales</em>, is a fourteenth-century allegory against gluttony, told by a corrupt, gluttonous pardoner to the rest of the pilgrims on their way to St. Thomas Becket’s shrine at Canterbury. In the Pardoner’s initial …