A family of mergansers and a lone muskrat were spectators as the fledgling splashed about until his body was cooled and invigorated. |
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It was wider than Texas, thicker than Momma's muskrat stew, and muddier than a cowboy's toenails. |
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Her coffin was lovingly wrapped in muskrat, beaver and fox furs and lowered into the ground by her family. |
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Among them are Queen Elizabeth II, Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Sir John A. MacDonald festooned in mink, beaver, muskrat, seal and rabbit. |
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He is helped by local creatures like a stinkpot turtle, a spring peeper, a muskrat, a kingfisher and a mallard duck. |
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Be on the lookout for woodcocks, rabbits, squirrels, raccoons, foxes, beavers, otters, ruffed grouse, and muskrat. |
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It has a body like a muskrat, a nose like a hedgehog and feet like a duck-billed platypus. |
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They were made in London by Ede and Ravenscroft from doeskin cloth and musquash fur from the South American muskrat. |
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Bald eagles, snowy egrets, great blue herons, otters, muskrat, and deer inhabit the banks of the Pocomoke River. |
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As mentioned earlier, large areas of cattails and other aquatic plants also will encourage muskrat activity. |
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The region teemed with muskrat, beaver, wolverine, otter, wolf, fox and bear. |
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The snapping turtle and the northern pike also inhabit marshes and prey on the muskrat. |
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Other wildlife includes arctic and red fox, arctic ground squirrel, arctic and snowshoe hare, lynx, wolf, wolverine and muskrat. |
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Mink use the same burrow systems, dig into muskrat lodges, and may enter lodges through plunge holes. |
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Even in one of the earliest books, the muskrat philosopher ends up seeing the point of things. |
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Often the muskrat they looked for, they could not find, the population dwindling, and they would often find them dead in their lairs. |
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If you see animal tracks such as muskrat, that's a sign of heavy rain coming. |
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The Dutch report also states that research is being undertaken to address bycatch resulting from fishing activities and muskrat control measures. |
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The black bears that once roamed Point Pelee National Park are now gone, but coyotes, red foxes, raccoons, opossums, weasels, and muskrat are still around. |
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From the Indian languages come chipmunk, mackinaw, moose, muskeg, muskrat. |
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Among the mammals: mink, muskrat, squirrel, skunk, raccoon, white-tailed deer, coyote, groundhog, cottontail, European hare, flying squirrel, bat and weasel. |
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One method of catching wildcats consists of using a modified muskrat trap with a spring placed in a concealed pit. |
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When the muskrat is swimming under water, however, the sculling action of the tail probably provides as much propulsive force as do the hind feet. |
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The Mouse and His Child is a bildungsroman, a zoological pilgrim's progress complete with murderous rats, prognosticating frogs and an muskrat that quotes Aquinas. |
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Roe deer, hare, foxes, and muskrat are of commercial importance. |
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In South America the muskrat was introduced into southern Argentina. |
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Park wildlife includes caribou, grizzly bear, wolverine, wolf, mink, moose, muskrat, gyrfalcon, peregrine falcon, golden eagle and rock and willow ptarmigan. |
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He will use this muskrat root to treat sore throats and chest colds. |
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In the mornings hoar-frost lay thick upon the ground, and thin ice formed in currentless shallows and overlay the muskrat runways. |
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The stability of the marshes can affect the muskrat population as well. |
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In the 1930s and 1940s, RCMP posts, stores and schools began closing as people moved to the Mackenzie Delta and Aklavik to take advantage of good muskrat trapping opportunities. |
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Squirrel, raccoon, possum, bear, muskrat, chipmunk, skunk, groundhog, pheasant, armadillo and rabbit are also consumed in the United States. |
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Since the muskrat population has been observed to fluctuate on a 5 to 7 year cycle it can be expected that the 2000 and 2001 seasons are at the peak of the cycle and the muskrat population may decrease in the future. |
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Stories of rats attaining sizes as big as cats are exaggerations, or misidentifications of other rodents, such as the coypu and muskrat. |
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Here and there, wildlife is given a spectacle: a heron that flies, a mallard duck that paddles a muskrat swimming to the surface, a bullfrog croaks that... Park in the Making? |
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Weapons in Africa, cauri in the Maldives, kina in New Guinea, small metal axes, muskrat skins in Canada, mokkos, cocoa, salt, raffia, spades and knifes, cigarettes, bird feathers, rai and carved stones. |
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One of us would then hold a little dip net over the mouth of the burrow, while the other would jump up and down on the bank until the muskrat would squirt out into the net. |
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Although the species is not threatened, products such as musk zibata were formerly produced from the muskrat Ondatra zibethicus, which lives on the Louisiana marshlands. |
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The main problem is that beavers excavate corridors and caves in dikes, thereby undermining the stability of the dike, just as the muskrat and the coypu do. |
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Construction of a large hydroelectric dam project at Muskrat Falls began in 2012 by Nalcor Energy and the Province of Newfoundland. |
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