muskrat in English

noun
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a large semiaquatic North American rodent with a musky smell, valued for its fur.
Other animals that may carry and transmit the disease include beavers, muskrats , water and field voles, water and wood rats, squirrels, and lemmings.
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1. 25 Hence the mink is not so much a threat to the muskrat population as a direct competitor with muskrat trappers.

2. What makes the muskrat guard his musk?

3. Native Americans have long considered the muskrat to be a very important animal.

4. Some predict winter snowfall levels by observing the size and timing of muskrat lodge construction.

5. Muskrat fur is warm, becoming prime at the beginning of December in northern North America.

6. These areas also provide food and shelter for such animals as alligator, beaver, muskrat, mink, and moose.

7. Some muskrat push-ups are swept away in spring floods and have to be replaced each year.

8. Muskrat populations appear to go through a regular pattern of rise and dramatic decline spread over a six- to 10-year period.

9. The muskrat is the largest species in the subfamily Arvicolinae, which includes 142 other species of rodents, mostly voles and lemmings.

10. They can be completely eradicated in shallow water bodies, and during the winter of 1948–49 in the Amu Darya (river in central Asia), muskrats constituted 12.3% of jackal faeces contents, and 71% of muskrat houses were destroyed by jackals, 16% of which froze and became unsuitable for muskrat occupation.

11. The Coypu is a semi-aquatic rodent, which can grow up to 1 m in length (head to tail), and is sometimes mistaken for an otter, beaver or muskrat

12. The movement of the water deters ice from forming, and even erodes existing ice, keeping access open to the life-saving air for both Blackfish and muskrat.

13. In several Native American creation myths, the muskrat dives to the bottom of the primordial sea to bring up the mud from which the earth is created, after other animals have failed in the task.

14. In the southeastern portion of Michigan, a longstanding dispensation allows Catholics to consume muskrat as their Friday penance, on Ash Wednesday, and on Lenten Fridays (when the eating of flesh, except for fish, is prohibited); this tradition dates back to at least the early 19th century.

15. In Pennsylvania, Spotted Turtles became inactive when water temperatures reached 30°C, and retreated to muskrat burrows in the banks of streams (Ernst 1982). Summer dormancy may be a more appropriate term than aestivation for the behaviour in Central Ontario where not all turtles became inactive in late summer.