muskrats in English

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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. Trematode Metorchis conjunctus can also infect muskrats.

2. During the spring, they often fight with other muskrats over territory and potential mates.

3. In southern environments, young muskrats mature in six months, while in colder northern environments, it takes about a year.

4. Muskrats were introduced at that time to Europe as a fur resource, and spread throughout northern Europe and Asia.

5. Pros and Cons of Cattail The rhizomes and lower leaf portions of Cattails are consumed by nutria, muskrats, and geese.

6. Radiotelemetry techniques were employed to study the relationship between activity and abdominal temperature (Tb) changes in free-ranging muskrats (Ondatra zibethicus).

7. And the dams they built in the rivers provided habitats for otters and muskrats and ducks and fish and reptiles and amphibians.

8. Seven trematode, three nematode, two cestode, one acanthocephalan, one protozoan, and three acarina species were recovered from 171 muskrats (Ondatra zibethica) taken in Manitoba.

9. Pros and Cons of Bulrush Seeds of Bulrushes are consumed by ducks and other birds; while geese, muskrats, and nutria consume the rhizomes and early shoots

10. There are at least four species in this third group, including G Ardeae and G psittaci from birds, G microti from muskrats and voles, and G duodenalis (also known as G intestinalis and G lamblia), a species complex with a wide mammalian host

11. 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.