When I finally got back to the place, however, I did not find a puppy but four gray fox kits near the hole that was obviously their den. |
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The absence of the red fox in Tasmania is the main reason that the island has been something of a Noah's Ark for Australian animals. |
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The average for the past three years was 67, and this was construed as an indication that the fox menace was now reasonably under control. |
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Whitetail deer, coyote, red fox, snowshoe hare and raccoon often make appearances. |
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I was brought up in Shropshire, so I know all about fox hunting and saw them setting off, all excited, ready for the kill. |
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The whips go to the covert and watch for the fox to go away, and then they signal the fox's escape from the covert. |
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In any event, if a lid is not closed properly on a wheelie bin, a fox will forage in the bin and the rubbish will still be strewn. |
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I am more entitled to call myself a fox expert than some so-called experts. |
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They became the first naturalists to describe several animals, including the coyote, kit fox, Oregon bobcat and the wolf of the plains. |
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Once widespread, they have been reduced to few isolated populations by habitat destruction and predation by the introduced red fox. |
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There are different foxes, there's the gray fox, the red fox, the arctic fox. |
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A kit fox family alone may use up to 50 burrows in a season, moving its young every few days. |
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Twenty threatened or endangered species make their home there, including the peregrine falcon and San Joaquin kit fox. |
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Many carnivores, such as mink, seal, fox, and bobcat, have long been hunted or ranched for their fur. |
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The fox wandered the area, and went a little ahead, finding not much, besides a few more berries that had not yet spoiled in the coming winter. |
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Hounds that have successfully tracked a fox are trained to pull it or dig it out of its hole, and the fox is killed. |
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Except when you find the foxhole and the dogs go in, there's not a fox, but a weasel cowering in the corner of the hole. |
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But when the blizzards wail the Arctic fox curls its tail over its frosty nose and sleeps in the snows. |
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After seeing a fox, wallabies thumped their hind feet in alarm, suppressed foraging, and increased looking. |
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Now, when I say fox hunting I mean the pack hounds and mounted gentry type of hunt. |
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The wily old fox of cricket had his guests enthralled by witty conversation, which ran late into the night. |
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The hearths contained burnt animal bone, including wild pig, fox, bird, either a dog or a wolf, and possibly a bear. |
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The predator species with the largest home ranges are red fox, pine marten, and raven. |
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The stables were capable of housing more than eighty horses and the Earl's fox hounds were kenneled behind the stables. |
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The fox hunters' problem is that, because keeping a horse is a pretty expensive activity, they were always seen as some sort of financial elite. |
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So it took me some time to come to terms with the fact that he supports fox hunting and his son is a whipper-in. |
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A datestone featuring the fox, as seen on the village weathervane, is due to be laid in the building in a month's time. |
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The social system of the red fox has, therefore, been viewed as one potential step in the evolutionary pathway to more complex societies. |
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While grooming, the male flying fox keeps his genitals exposed, indicating to nearby females that he is receptive to mating. |
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He seems less the wily fighting fox and more the cornered stag. |
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This study adds new data to the comparative genome map of the dog, red fox, arctic fox, and raccoon dog obtained recently by comparative chromosome painting. |
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My parents' dog is a wire-haired fox terrier about eight years old. |
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It cut its teeth on water rat, badger, otter and fox in its native Yorkshire, England, then proved to be an excellent watchdog and retriever, too. |
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The British fox is an opportunist predator, which kills poultry, new-born lambs and piglets, as well as young hares and wild ground-nesting birds. |
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Secondly, a fox is not a recognised quarry for a bird of prey. |
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Iowa Staters are used to seeing rabbits, squirrels and ground squirrels scampering around campus, but recent sightings of a red fox have caught some by surprise. |
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Hundreds of packs of fox hounds, hare hounds, deer hounds and other hunts and clubs are planning to meet on Saturday, the day after the ban comes into force. |
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A rare silver arctic fox, a tough breed used to treading the icy wastes of Alaska and Canada, has been given a new home and a warm welcome at Selby Animal Sanctuary. |
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The Jack Russell Terrier is a small terrier with origins in fox hunting. |
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You're likely to come across red fox, river otter, geese, and swans. |
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The red fox is one of many animals that are becoming increasingly common, even in urban areas, at the expense of locally unique species, experts say. |
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White-tailed deer, beaver, and red fox are content with just about any vegetation and width, whereas wild turkey and wood duck prefer forested buffers over 35 feet wide. |
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This woman bought a dog in Mexico, and they told her it was a Chihuahua, but when she brought it home, she discovered that in reality it was a wire-haired fox terrier! |
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It is thought Zac had gone into an unused rabbit or fox warren. |
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It is, however, not as adapted for a purely carnivorous diet as the Tibetan fox. |
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The ancestral species was likely smaller than the current one, as the earliest red fox fossils are smaller than modern populations. |
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In the far north, red fox fossils have been found in Sangamonian deposits in the Fairbanks District and Medicine Hat. |
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Genetic testing indicates two distinct red fox refugia exist in North America, which have been separated since the Wisconsinan. |
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Compared to burrows constructed by Arctic foxes, badgers, marmots and corsac foxes, red fox dens are not overly complex. |
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Red fox burrows are divided into a den and temporary burrows, which consist only of a small passage or cave for concealment. |
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Red fox body language consists of movements of the ears, tail and postures, with their body markings emphasising certain gestures. |
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In areas in North America where red fox and coyote populations are sympatric, fox ranges tend to be located outside coyote territories. |
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It is likely then that Sardinian fox populations stem from repeated introductions of animals from different localities in the Mediterranean. |
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In Greek mythology, the Teumessian fox or Cadmean vixen, was a gigantic fox that was destined never to be caught. |
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By the Renaissance, fox hunting became a traditional sport of the nobility. |
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After the English Civil War caused a drop in deer populations, fox hunting grew in popularity. |
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These American fox hunters considered the red species more sporting than grey species. |
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A more effective method of fox control is to deter them from the specific areas they inhabit. |
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Indigenous mammals include the leopard, hyena, fox, wolf, hare, oryx, and ibex. |
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The island also hosts scientists who study pinnipeds and manage the island fox captive breeding program that is conducted on the island. |
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In 1998, an outbreak of canine distemper swept through Santa Catalina Island severely reducing the island skunk and fox populations. |
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While it was previously almost extinct, hunting is permitted for both it and the Arctic fox. |
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There are populations of rabbit, red fox, grey squirrel, otter, water voles and deer. |
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The fox has a low surface area to volume ratio, as evidenced by its generally compact body shape, short muzzle and legs, and short, thick ears. |
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The Arctic fox has such keen hearing, it can determine exactly where a small animal is moving under the snow. |
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Vulpes lagopus is a 'true fox' belonging to the genus Vulpes of the fox tribe Vulpini. |
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The Arctic fox has a circumpolar distribution and occurs in Arctic tundra habitats in northern Europe, northern Asia, and North America. |
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However, the total population of the Arctic fox must be in the order of several hundred thousand animals. |
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The world population of Arctic foxes is thus not endangered, but two Arctic fox subpopulations are. |
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Even after local lemming peaks, the Arctic fox population tends to collapse back to levels dangerously close to nonviability. |
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Exotic furs such as fox, marten, grey squirrel and ermine were reserved for aristocratic elites. |
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You little children think there's only one cuckoo, one fox, one giant, one devil, and one reddleman, when there's lots of us all. |
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Several Marines claimed to have seen the cat fleetingly, but nothing other than a fox was ever found. |
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Unfortunately, the uproar awoke Mr. Jones, who sprang out of bed, making sure that there was a fox in the yard. |
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A Westie fancier, Colonel Edward Malcolm, is said to have had a reddish-colored dog who was shot by hunters who mistook the dog for a fox. |
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A fox trot idyl of the Orient, xylophonically told and played in excellent tempo. |
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Featured are cardinal, turtle, otter, fox, raccoon, deer, duck, bobcat, rabbit, skunk, flying squirrel, waterthrush, and black bear babies. |
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Wild animals, including white-tailed deer, fox, lynx and marten and a multitude of birds are part of the park's attraction. |
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These include the wolf, fox, ape, zebra, cheetah, rhinoceros, African buffalo and others. |
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The middle class were known to wear fox, hare and beaver while the less fortunate wore goat, wolf and sheepskin. |
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I had a bobcat and a threelegged fox that got caught in a trap. |
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Upon the opening of his mouth he drops his breakfast, which the fox presently chopped up. |
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Unlike a drag hunt, where the scent is laid in a straight line, trailers will be trying to mirror the zigzag path of a hunted fox. |
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On one of my expeditions, after a stormy night, at the end of March, the hounds drew all day without finding a fox. |
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Some hounds fell on the fewte left by the fox, Using their craft to cross and cross again. |
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And Jerry was cute, you know, I liked him, but Frank was a total fox. And he was rougher than Jerry, you know, not so cultured. |
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The journalists gave cry after the Prince, like a pack of hounds when they strike the trail of a fox. |
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However, some species, such as the brown rat, red fox, and introduced grey squirrel, are well adapted to urban areas. |
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Carnivorous mammals include the fox, badger, otter, weasel, stoat and elusive wildcat. |
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Well, as soon as Alice finished singing, land sakes! goodness, gracious me! if a big fox didn't pop out from behind a tree. |
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The fox of Japanese folklore is a powerful trickster in and of itself, imbued with powers of shape changing, possession, and illusion. |
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However, once a fox enters the employ of a human it almost exclusively becomes a force of evil to be feared. |
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In the 1973 animated Disney film, Robin Hood, the title character is portrayed as an anthropomorphic fox voiced by Brian Bedford. |
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Melton pies became popular among fox hunters in the area in the late eighteenth century. |
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Three years later she began contributing a weekly page in the magazine, in which she published letters from her fox terrier dog Bobs. |
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In the United States, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both kept packs of fox hounds before and after the American Revolutionary War. |
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Scotland, which has its own Parliament, restricted fox hunting in 2002, more than two years before the ban in England and Wales. |
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Some hunts may go without catching a fox for several seasons, despite chasing two or more foxes in a single day's hunting. |
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American fox hunters undertake stewardship of the land, and endeavour to maintain fox populations and habitats as much as possible. |
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However, coyotes tend to be less challenging intellectually, as they offer a straight line hunt instead of the convoluted fox line. |
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The scent of the gray fox is not as strong as that of the red, therefore more time is needed for the hounds to take the scent. |
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This is not practiced in the United States, as once the fox has gone to ground and is accounted for by the hounds, it is left alone. |
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If the pack manages to pick up the scent of a fox, they will track it for as long as they are able. |
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The hounds pursue the trail of the fox and the riders follow, by the most direct route possible. |
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In the case of Scottish hill packs or the gun packs of Wales and upland areas of England, the fox is flushed to guns. |
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For this reason, there are large numbers of people who support fox hunting and this can be for a variety of reasons. |
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It was found this ban on hunting had no measurable impact on fox numbers in randomly selected areas. |
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Therefore, unlike other methods of controlling the fox population, it is argued that hunting with dogs resembles natural selection. |
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Many animal welfare groups, campaigners and activists believe that fox hunting is unfair and cruel to animals. |
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They argue that the chase itself causes fear and distress and that the fox is not always killed instantly as is claimed. |
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They further argue that, while hunting with hounds may cause suffering, controlling fox numbers by other means is even more cruel. |
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The dog, wolf, and fox are monestrous, the fox and wolf having one and the dog two cycles in a year. |
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A keen rider, Queensberry was also active in fox hunting and owned several successful race horses. |
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Wild mammals include the Arctic fox, mink, mice, rats, rabbits, and reindeer. |
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Competitors of the wildcat include the jungle cat, golden jackal, red fox, marten, and other predators. |
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In modern times, they are caught in unbaited traps on pathways or at abandoned fox, badger, hare or pheasant trails. |
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The red fox, cats and dogs can prey upon the red squirrel when it is on the ground. |
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These scats are black and twisted and can be confused with those of the fox, except that they reputedly have a floral odor. |
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May indicated she would permit a free vote among Conservative MPs on repealing the ban on fox hunting in England and Wales. |
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Svalbard is a breeding ground for many seabirds, and also features polar bears, reindeer, the Arctic fox, and certain marine mammals. |
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Among the true foxes, the red fox represents a more progressive form in the direction of carnivory. |
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Apart from its large size, the red fox is distinguished from other fox species by its ability to adapt quickly to new environments. |
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The scientific term vulpes derives from the Latin word for fox, and gives the adjectives vulpine and vulpecular. |
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This looks at the place's real stars, the Arctic fox, the Eider duck and Viking horses. |
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For example, the arctic fox changes its fur according to the season, its coat can currently be seen transitioning from white to brown. |
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An Arctic fox is also helpful in her journey, changing her homemade raft into a magic, speaking raft they name Lucky-Jumpy-Rafty. |
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They included a golden eagle chasing a red fox in Bulgaria and a snow goose taking on an arctic fox in Russia. |
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Tundra The arctic hare and The arctic willow Spanning the Arctic arctic fox sport has shallow roots so Circle, the tundra is the white coats. |
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Bud barked, dashed and hit the end of his retractable leash, nearly knocking me on my keester as the fox ran nonchalantly up the trail. |
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His actions are opposed to those of the pale fox that is associated with sterility, aridness and death. |
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Tissues ready as he helps Lara the cat, who had been trapped in a removal van, hit by a car then attacked by a fox. |
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Marakov mentioned that during 1935-1941, free-ranging Arctic fox, Alopex lagopus, farms were active on both islands. |
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Large litters are typical in areas where fox mortality is high. |
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The red fox has an elongated body and relatively short limbs. |
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The latter clade has been separated from all other red fox populations since the last glacial maximum, and may possess unique ecological or physiological adaptations. |
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The Tod is a red fox encountered by Snitter and Rowf early in the story. |
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The diary section this week of a shivering director shows the perseverance it took to get the first ever shots of an Arctic fox snow-diving for lemmings. |
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Other animals include the black giant squirrel, capped langur, Bengal fox, sambar deer, jungle cat, king cobra, wild boar, mongooses, pangolins, pythons and water monitors. |
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Some species, such as, the red fox, hedgehog and badger, are very common, whereas others, like the Irish hare, red deer and pine marten are less so. |
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Because of its widespread distribution and large population, the red fox is one of the most important furbearing animals harvested for the fur trade. |
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For now the boys grew whiskers and hung fox pelts from their shoulders and the girlen all wore scarlet skirts and braided ribbons through their hair. |
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They are preyed on by the snowy owl, Arctic fox, Grizzly bear, and wolf. |
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She greeted me with one of those piercing view-halloos which she had picked up on the hunting field in the days when she had been an energetic chivvier of the British fox. |
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Inside, the walls were painted with murals of dogs frolicking in the woods and giving chase to a frightened fox while chubby canine cherubim smiled down at them. |
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Occasionally, abandoned European badger or red fox burrows are used. |
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The only native land mammal when humans arrived was the Arctic fox, which came to the island at the end of the ice age, walking over the frozen sea. |
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Among the endangered mammalian species are the red fox and wild cat. |
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He has played in concerts to raise funds for the organisation and publicly opposed the Labour Party's ban on fox hunting with the 2004 Hunting Act. |
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At dawn, in the midst of a mist that is both literal and the unformed shifting of thought, he encounters a young fox pup playfully shaking a bone. |
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The few native land mammals in Greenland include the polar bear, arctic fox, reindeer, arctic hare, musk ox, collared lemming, ermine, and arctic wolf. |
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The scent, usually a combination of aniseed oils and possibly animal meats or fox urine, is dragged along the terrain for distances usually of 10 or more miles. |
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There are times when a fox that is injured or sick is caught by the pursuing hounds, but hunts say that the occurrence of an actual kill of this is exceptionally rare. |
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The polar bear and the caribou haven't arrived yet, but there's a Kodiak bear, an Arctic fox, a pair of gorgeous snowy owls, a few ptarmigans and a beautiful white wolf. |
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Hunts may also use terriers to flush or kill foxes that are hiding underground, as they are small enough to pursue the fox through narrow earth passages. |
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There is also one pack of beagles in Virginia that hunt fox. |
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These dogs are trained to pursue the fox based on its scent. |
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During the British Raj, British sportsmen in India would hunt jackals on horseback with hounds as a substitute for the fox hunting of their native England. |
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Unlike the red fox which, during the chase, will run far ahead from the pack, the gray fox will speed toward heavy brush, thus making it more difficult to pursue. |
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It was the combination of a super-smooth shooting dog of radiant style and talent, and a Br'er Rabbit handler that stayed one bounce ahead of the fox. |
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Other species than the red fox may be the quarry for hounds in some areas. |
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The first use of packs specifically trained to hunt foxes was in the late 1600s, with the oldest fox hunt being, probably, the Bilsdale in Yorkshire. |
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Thoroughbreds are used mainly for racing, but are also bred for other riding disciplines such as show jumping, combined training, dressage, polo, and fox hunting. |
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The fox can turn invisible and find secrets its master desires. |
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The fox witch is, by far, the most commonly seen witch figure in Japan. |
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A fox under the employ of a human can provide many services. |
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They are being invited to join Mouse on his adventurous journey through the deep, dark wood as he meets a wheeler-dealer fox, an eccentric owl and a party-mad snake. |
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The men dress in orejeros caps in fox or red deer skin made for winter. |
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Usual animal sources for fur clothing and fur trimmed accessories include fox, rabbit, mink, beavers, ermine, otters, sable, seals, coyotes, chinchilla, raccoon, and possum. |
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Its range during the last ice age was much more extensive than it is now, and fossil remains of the Arctic fox have been found over much of northern Europe and Siberia. |
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During April and May, the Arctic fox also preys on ringed seal pups when the young animals are confined to a snow den and are relatively helpless. |
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The fur of the Arctic fox provides the best insulation of any mammal. |
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In Russia, polar bear furs were already being commercially traded in the 14th century, though it was of low value compared to Arctic fox or even reindeer fur. |
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Although there is one record of a tame badger befriending a fox, they generally do not tolerate the presence of cats and dogs, and will chase them. |
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The most common nematode species found in fox guts are Toxocara canis and Uncinaria stenocephala, Capillaria aerophila and Crenosoma vulpis, the latter two infect their lungs. |
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