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Recent Examples of muskrat
The muskrats are depended on by bald eagles, and muskrats are probably the biggest consumer of the freshwater mussels.
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Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
Edward’s parenting was particularly industrious, requiring his children to paint their own rooms, make their own clothes and earn extra cash by trapping and skinning muskrats to sell their pelts.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024
The researchers also analyzed several other species raised for fur, meat, and medicinal purposes, including deer, muskrats, guinea pigs, rabbits, and badgers.
—Byjon Cohen, science.org, 5 Sep. 2024
Mink are semi-aquatic carnivores that eat muskrat, fish, reptiles, amphibians, waterfowl, eggs and small mammals like mice, according to the DNR.
—Angelika Ytuarte, Journal Sentinel, 25 July 2024
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Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
Edward’s parenting was particularly industrious, requiring his children to paint their own rooms, make their own clothes and earn extra cash by trapping and skinning muskrats to sell their pelts.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024
The researchers also analyzed several other species raised for fur, meat, and medicinal purposes, including deer, muskrats, guinea pigs, rabbits, and badgers.
—Byjon Cohen, science.org, 5 Sep. 2024
Mink are semi-aquatic carnivores that eat muskrat, fish, reptiles, amphibians, waterfowl, eggs and small mammals like mice, according to the DNR.
—Angelika Ytuarte, Journal Sentinel, 25 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for muskrat
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Tables are broken, a beaver is thrown into a wall, glass bottles break (with the cost of their damage appearing onscreen) and a fish is used as a fire hose.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2025
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One particular beaver, named Geronimo, became the program’s reluctant test subject.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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Ant nests can be huge underground labyrinths, and raccoons are experts at disguising their nests in trees, which are just a couple of examples.—
Ut Community Press,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Mar. 2025
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The list also included various rodents, a spider, pigs, goats, cows, a raccoon, hedgehogs, a crab and more.—
USA TODAY,
USA TODAY,
20 Feb. 2025
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However, the baleens that exhibit flight — blue, Bryde’s, sei, fin, and mink whales — have more slender bodies, built for quick escapes, according to the study which was led by Trevor Branch, a professor of aquatic and fishery sciences at the UW.—
Monica Cull,
Discover Magazine,
7 Feb. 2025
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Europe is the world’s leading producer of mink pelts.—
ByJon Cohen,
science.org,
5 Sep. 2024
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Marvel Rocket and Baby Groot Minifigure Recreate some of Rocket’s adventures from Guardians of the Galaxy with this buildable and poseable figure of the beloved racoon.—
Mia Huelsbeck,
People.com,
18 Jan. 2025
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The Ledge Light Health District said that a racoon found on Cedar Drive in the town of North Stonington was tested and found to be positive for rabies on December 9, 2024.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
12 Dec. 2024
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If the club compounds the loss of Miller’s offensive value by also losing Boeser, whether that happens this week or this summer, then the need for Canucks management to pull a rabbit out of a hat in grafting high-end attacking juice into the lineup will become even more urgent.—
Thomas Drance,
The Athletic,
5 Mar. 2025
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This allows the rabbit to choose whether to engage while maintaining a safe distance.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
4 Mar. 2025
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Moments later, the otter resurfaced and the mom rescued her child out of the water.—
Rebekah Riess,
CNN,
14 Sep. 2024
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The otter continued to attack as the mother struggled to pull her child from the water at Bremerton Marina, and she was bitten on the arm by the animal.—
Brie Stimson,
Fox News,
14 Sep. 2024
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The state has long handled mountain lions as most states handle coyotes, skunks, or badgers, with no rules governing take of any kind.—
Christine Peterson,
Outdoor Life,
13 Feb. 2025
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The final photograph, David Northall's 'Spiked,' shows a relentless honey badger doubling back to attack a porcupine that has left the badger bloodied and covered in large quills.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
5 Feb. 2025
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This acquisition will improve the habitat for Wisconsin’s endangered American marten, which has been facing a dwindling habitat.—
Noël Fletcher,
Forbes,
8 Dec. 2024
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With their larger competitors out of the way, the smaller, less numerous martens had some breathing room.—
Siddhant Pusdekar,
Journal Sentinel,
5 July 2024
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