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- noun Plural form of
mustelid .
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Unfortunately none of the mustelids on earth have yet evolved into a Spice Weasel, so what to use instead?
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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Unfortunately none of the mustelids on earth have yet evolved into a Spice Weasel, so what to use instead?
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There are 41 species of mammals nearly half of Bulgaria's fauna: 4 carnivores, 7 mustelids, 3 ungulates and 18 or more rodents.
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Mathematical modeling shows that specialist resident predators such as small mustelids and the Arctic fox can also impose prey population cycles due to sufficiently strong numerical and adequate functional responses [117].
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Particularly in the foothills and mountains, larger mammals such as Chacma baboon Papio ursinus, honey-badger Mellivora capensis, clawless otter Aonyx capensis, leopard Panthera pardus, aardvark Orycteropus afer, eland Taurotragus oryx, the regional endemic bontebok Damaliscus dorcas dorcas anddiverse mustelids and viverrids occur.
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These are mostly small mammals such as microbats, rodents, rabbits, and small mustelids.
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As a consequence they are relatively easy prey for introduced and efficient predators like stoats (Mustela erminea), cats (Felis cattus), rats (Rattus rattus and Rattus norvegicus) and other mustelids.
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Introduced mustelids and rodents have had a devastating impact on indigenous bird life.
Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand 2008
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In their absence, several small-medium carnivores dominate these forests, including the endangered clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa), sun bear (Helarctos malayanus), Sunda otter-civet (Cynogale bennettii), and other mustelids.
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In general, most effort goes into possum control but some funding is available for controlling goats, pigs, mustelids, rodents, chamois, deer, and wasps.
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