| The old prison is now a museum, and the nearby wildlife park has rare Scottish wildcats as well as silver foxes, badgers, deer and wallabies. |
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| Though more tolerant of people than many other wildcats, bobcats tend to avoid large cultivated areas. |
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| Over the years, Owen Newman and I had filmed cheetahs, lions, leopards, African wildcats and servals but never caracals. |
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| Inhabiting the park's many dense thickets are badgers, wildcats, foxes, beech martens, weasels and Egyptian mongooses. |
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| Forest dwelling mammals include beech martens, wildcats, genets, badgers and wild boar, as well as a number of small insectivores. |
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| Because they have lived alongside each other for so long, true Scottish wildcats and crossbred mongrels are difficult to tell apart. |
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| Over the years, we had filmed cheetahs, lions, leopards, African wildcats and servals but never caracals. |
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| You see ingenious ways to turn the wildcats at work into pussycats. |
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| Peak exploration was in 1985 when 184 wildcats were drilled. |
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| In some summers, wildcats are infested with fleas of the Ceratophyllus genus, which they likely contract from brown rats. |
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| The voice of steppe wildcats differs little from the housecat's, while that of forest wildcats is similar, but coarser. |
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| In Transcaucasia, the majority of wildcats are infested by the tick Ixodes ricinus. |
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| Brown rats and water voles, as well as muskrats and waterfowl are the main sources of food for wildcats in the Kuban delta. |
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| Birds taken by Prut wildcats include warblers, ferruginous ducks, coots, spotted crakes, and gadwalls. |
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| There are records of male and female wildcats becoming temporarily monogamous. |
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| While wildcats in Europe will cache their food, such a behaviour has not been observed in their African counterparts. |
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| The sandy scrublands of central Pakistan are home to Asiatic jackals, striped hyenas, wildcats, and leopards. |
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| In subsequent decades, several naturalists and explorers described wildcats from European, African and Asian countries. |
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| Besides pearls, they took back parrots, wildcats, monkeys, salt, turtle shells, dyewood and slaves. |
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| Despite being closely related to the domestic cat, wildcats have a reputation for being effectively impossible to raise as pets. |
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| In 2012, conservationists reported to have discovered a previously unknown population of Scottish wildcats in the Cairngorms National Park. |
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| The greatest population of wildcats lives in Spain and Portugal but is threatened by interbreeding with feral cats and loss of habitat. |
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| In France, European wildcats are predominantly nocturnal, but are also active in the daytime when undisturbed by human activities. |
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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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| In the former Soviet Union, wildcats were usually caught accidentally in traps set for martens. |
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| According to the foundation myth of the Catti tribe, their ancestors were attacked by wildcats upon landing in Scotland. |
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| Because of its habit of living in areas with rocks and tall trees for refuge, dense thickets and abandoned burrows, wildcats have few natural predators. |
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| Similarly to the housecat, the physical development of African wildcat kittens over the first two weeks of their lives is much faster than that of European wildcats. |
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| In southern Africa, where wildcats attain greater sizes than their western counterparts, antelope fawns and domestic stock, such as lambs and kids are occasionally targeted. |
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| Threats Although they are preyed upon occasionally by golden eagles, red foxes, wolves and wildcats, humans are the largest threat to pine martens. |
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| In most European countries, European wildcats have become rare. |
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| The wildcat is a very capable survivor and prefers to breed with other wildcats, but it's so outnumbered by domestic cats that hybridisation is inevitable. |
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| These included brown bears, wildcats, lynx, wolves, badgers and otters as well as Golden and white-tailed eagles, black vultures and six varieties of woodpecker. |
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| Even after all we had experienced already this was amazing as we saw lynx, African wildcats, serval and cheetah and the work being done to return them to the wild. |
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| His running is the reason why the Wildcats are relying more on power football and the option. |
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| But the Wildcats melted in a season-opening 41-7 loss at Penn State in the Kickoff Classic. |
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| So, instead of advancing to the Fiesta Bowl to play for the national championship, the Wildcats were cashiered to the Alamo Bowl. |
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| The Gators erase memories of their 62-24 massacre to Nebraska after the 1995 season by pasting the Wildcats. |
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| Both former Wildcats paused, smiled, and did what any two old boys would do, they gave each other the finger. |
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| Her team won the toss, and picked the side they wanted to defend, while the Northern Appleton Wildcats got the kickoff. |
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| Wildcats have five toes on each of their forepaws, but only four toes on each back paw. |
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| And the Wildcats are believed to have targeted promising young loose forward Jamie Langley as a makeweight in any deal. |
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| Coming off a 15th place showing, the Kentucky Wildcats should uncork another solid effort. |
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| Jenny Coady was first to register a score for Wildcats with two free shots. |
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| Wildcats prey mainly on smaller animals, particularly voles, wood mice, and seabirds but they also kill rabbits and mountain hares. |
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| Nik missed a heave at the buzzer and the Wildcats rushed off the bench and dogpiled Harrison at midcourt. |
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| And two UK Wildcats embracing as they win what was evidently a big game, cuz there are streamers in the background. |
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| All the Wildcats are asking him to do is assume a starting backcourt role on a team that was a No.1 seed in the NCAA Tournament and lost its starting guards. |
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| The latest is maybe the biggest howler yet, bigger than even the ad that mistook Duke basketball players for UK Wildcats. |
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| So now the Wildcats will wait and follow bracketology like everyone else. |
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| However the Wildcats gradually clawed it back and, in the end, it was the superior experience and craft of the Wildcats girls that proved to be the vital difference. |
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| Snitch accepts the Wildcats could face a difficult task against the Crusaders, who have been getting close to that elusive first win. |
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| Wildcats were probably domesticated in the Fertile Crescent around the time of the introduction of agriculture. |
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| Having been signed from Swindon Wildcats to replace the departed Mike Brabon, Lansdowne saved Barons from a hammering at Bracknell Bees. |
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| Wildcats on the Black Sea coast are thought to feed on small birds, shrews, and hares. |
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| The event will also feature local boys This Day Forward, a pop-punk-metal band from Ruthin, and Beezer and The Wildcats, from Llansannan. |
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| Wildcats hunting rabbits have been observed to wait above rabbit warrens for their prey to emerge. |
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| The Wildcats defeated Juton Paints 65-55 in the Intercompany B with Leonard Lamoste scoring 20 points and Severino Baria contributing 17 points for the Saudi Aircon victory. |
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| With the Spartans missing their biggest presence on defense, it allowed the Wildcats to capitalize on their final opportunity against a much smaller back line. |
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| Swindon Wildcats compete in the English Premier Ice Hockey League, the second tier of British ice hockey, and play their home games at Swindon's Link Centre. |
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| Against the Wildcats, the Ducks jumped out to a quick lead when Janie Takeda opened with a leadoff double and later scored on a sac fly by Jenna Lilley for a 1-0 lead. |
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| Wildcats in the Dnestr swamps feed on small voles, water voles, and birds, while those living in the Prut swamps primarily target water voles, brown rats, and muskrats. |
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| Nothing on the court seems to be fazing the Wildcats either. |
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