What's the difference between fitchew and polecat?

Fitchew


Definition:

  • (n.) The European polecat (Putorius foetidus). See Polecat.

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Polecat


Definition:

  • (n.) A small European carnivore of the Weasel family (Putorius foetidus). Its scent glands secrete a substance of an exceedingly disagreeable odor. Called also fitchet, foulmart, and European ferret.
  • (n.) The zorilla. The name is also applied to other allied species.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results suggest that in male polecats, changes in absolute food intake induce seasonal changes in body weight.
  • (2) An ELISA was developed using staphylococcal protein A linked with horseradish peroxidase for detecting IgG antibody of rabies virus in human and carnivore sera (80 human, 270 fox, 40 cat, 35 marten, 5 badger and 4 polecat sera were tested in the present work).
  • (3) A review of the literature yielded reports of 83 other tumours in domestic ferrets, black-footed ferrets and European polecats.
  • (4) The main host of the hedgehog flea is the European hedgehog, but the flea was also found in different furry mammals, such as polecats, brown rats and foxes.
  • (5) Polecats which were subjected to the experimental photoperiods completed more molting cycles and underwent more photoperiod-induced changes in body weight than those in the control group.
  • (6) DNA reassociation kinetics were studied in the European mink (Mustela lutreola), the American mink (M. vison), the marbled polecat (Vormela peregusna).
  • (7) Vaginal cytology and vulva size were used to characterize the reproductive cycle of female black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes), Siberian polecats (M. eversmanni), and domestic ferrets (M. putorius furo).
  • (8) An analysis of seasonal changes in energy budget of the farmed polecat (Mustela putorius) was performed in subarctic climate.
  • (9) Vocalizations of African weasels (Poecilogale albinucha) and polecats (Ictonyx striatus) were tape recorded and analysed sonagraphically.
  • (10) Eight domestic ferrets (Mustela putorius furo) and two Siberian polecats (M. eversmanni) were inoculated subcutaneously with 12 to 1.2 x 10(7) Yersinia pestis originally isolated during an epizootic of plague in white-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys leucurus) near Meeteetse, Park County, Wyoming (USA) in 1985.
  • (11) Vaginal cytology is extremely useful in the reproductive management of black-footed ferrets and Siberian polecats.
  • (12) Body weight of male polecats was highest in winter.
  • (13) Eight domestic ferrets readily accepted neonatal polecat kits and 5 successfully reared kits, although kit survival was quite poor.
  • (14) Ammonia concentrations were measured in the nests of farmed raccoon dogs (Nyctereutes-procyonoides Gray, 1834) and polecats (Mustela putorius) at weaning time.
  • (15) Liver weight of both male and female polecats was significantly higher in winter than in summer.
  • (16) No marked seasonal changes in body weight of female polecats, or raccoon dogs of both sexes were found.
  • (17) A total of 395 wild animals represented by 12 species have been studied over the 1972-1975 period for the presence of sarcosporidia--wild swine, does, hares, jackals, foxes, wild cats, polecats, rats, forest mice, and weasels killed in various regions of the district of Bourgas.
  • (18) Observations carried out on 106 polecat brains showed that the system of basilar arteries of the brain is similar to those in other cornivorous species.
  • (19) Rabbits: myxomatosis, pasteurella infection, dysenteria; mustelides (mink, polecat a.o.
  • (20) Total hepatic glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity of polecats and raccoon dogs was higher in winter than in summer.

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