muskrat|muskrats in English

noun

large water rat (native to North America) that has a musky odor and whose light brown fur is harvested for commercial use in the fashion industry

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1. 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.

2. Trematode Metorchis conjunctus can also infect muskrats.

3. 25 Hence the mink is not so much a threat to the muskrat population as a direct competitor with muskrat trappers.

4. What makes the muskrat guard his musk?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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.

22. 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.

23. 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

24. 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.

25. 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.