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June 2, 2009 at 9:20 am only the furbearing-voracious-born-preggie ones.
Soon, it will hatch into a lolcat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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This herbivore is much cheaper to feed than the furbearing carnivores such as mink.
15 Agouti 1991
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Any life-supporting world as cold as Tran-ky-ky was bound to produce some extraordin-ary furbearing creatures.
Mission to Moulokin Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1979
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There were few furbearing animals left, but several of the boys sold raccoon and opossum hides.
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Since they hunt the furbearing animals in the neighboring forests during the winter, they diminish the food supply of the hunters who dwell permanently in the forest, and thus make their life still more difficult.
The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America Ellsworth Huntington 1911
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Among the furbearing races the adult male of the French species easily excels.
Europe Revised 1910
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If this is true, it is an indication of the immense supply of furbearing animals, especially beaver, available at that time.
The Quaker Colonies, a chronicle of the proprietors of the Delaware Sydney George Fisher 1891
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American Indians hunted buffalo in the shadow of the snow-capped mountains; rugged mountain men trapped beaver and other furbearing animals in and along the icy streams; and hardy homesteaders and cattlemen eked out a living on the sagebrush-covered plains despite the harsh winter weather.
American Profile 2009
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Traps commonly used to catch furbearing animals from the wild are indiscriminate and may catch endangered animals as well as their target species.
YubaNet.com 2009
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Traps commonly used to catch furbearing animals from the wild are indiscriminate and may catch endangered animals as well as their target species.
YubaNet.com 2009
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