How To Use Muskrat In A Sentence
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Muskrat fur almost equals beaver fur in quality.
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Water voles, small rodents closely related to muskrats and lemmings and which live only along clear, unpolluted rivers and streams, have been decimated by non-native mink which originally escaped from fur farms.
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Some of these destructive species include beavers, muskrats, elk, deer, voles, marmots, prairie dogs and geese.
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Our muskrat is a trapped and drowned one so we will not have to replace the shot hole plugs with fresh ones, as would be best if it had been killed with the gun.
Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration
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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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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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They take other small rodents, shrews, rabbits, gophers, bats, and muskrats as well.
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Many land companies began to lease sections of the marshes to individuals with exclusive rights to hunt, harvest alligators, and trap abundant muskrats and other furbearers.
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The Rodentia also includes beavers, muskrats, porcupines, woodchucks, chipmunks, squirrels, prairie dogs, marmots, chinchillas, voles, lemmings, and many others.
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Muskrat fur almost equals beaver fur in quality.
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Bald eagles, snowy egrets, great blue herons, otters, muskrat, and deer inhabit the banks of the Pocomoke River.
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Canada geese, muskrats, groundhogs, beavers, and various bird species may cause nuisance problems in and around the pond.
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Creatures extrude or vent eggs; larvae fatten, split their shells, and eat them; spores dissolve or explode; root hairs multiply, corn puffs on the stalk, grass yields seed, shoots erupt from the earth turgid and sheathed; wet muskrats, rabbits, and squirrels slide into the sunlight, mewling and blind; and everywhere watery cells divide and swell, swell and divide.
Nature & Environment
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Since muskrats are furbearers and are protected by wildlife laws, the recommended method of control is to trap them heavily during the legal trapping season.
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The coati's expression verged on mania, the muskrat thought.
The Lives of Felix Gunderson
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With his hunting experience, he introduced trapping lures for mink, muskrats, fox, beaver, bobcats, coyotes and wolves.
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The black bears that once roamed Point Pelee National Park are now gone, but coyotes, red foxes, raccoons, opossums, weasels, and muskrat are still around.
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This miller had shot an animal they call a muskrat, the skin of which we saw hanging up to dry.
Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680
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Most of the primary productivity is routed through detrital pathways but herbivory can be important, particularly by muskrats and geese.
Wetland classifications
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Muskrat Castle as the house has been facetiously named by some waggish officer
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The Rodentia also includes beavers, muskrats, porcupines, woodchucks, chipmunks, squirrels, prairie dogs, marmots, chinchillas, voles, lemmings, and many others.
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Eagles and falcons nested in the crannied cliff, symbols of strength and sources of ceremonial feathers, and in the river lived waterfowl, beaver, muskrat and mink.
Bird Cloud
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He would ramble on by the hour about the things around us; about the trees, the birds, and squirrels; of the way the muskrats lived by the sawmill dam, and their cleverness in avoiding his traps; about the deer that "yarded" back of Taft's Knob last winter, and their leanness in the spring.
The Under Dog
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Their diet consists mainly of fish, but they also eat insects, frogs, and occasionally small mammals such as muskrats.
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Some of these destructive species include beavers, muskrats, elk, deer, voles, marmots, prairie dogs and geese.
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The mandrill, mockingbird, and muskrat are wizards of any domain, take no prisoners, give no apology
A Bestiary of Sorts, in Miniature
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They take other small rodents, shrews, rabbits, gophers, bats, and muskrats as well.
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Otters and the Coons and the Muskrats saw them coming, they gave a great shout, for Grandfather Frog is sometimes called the oracle of the
The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat
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Look for tracks of muskrats, minks, beavers, and river otters in the mud.
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Whether it is "Muskrat Love" slurping its way through the loudspeakers at CVS or "My Heart Will Go On" pummeling you as you sit on the runway, or Andrea Bocelli warbling his way through yet another treacly ballad while you're trying to enjoy your osso buco, music that a large number of people despise is constantly assaulting us.
Can't Stop the Music? Tell Me About It
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He is called muskrat, from his resemblance to the common rat, combined with the musky odour which he emits from glands situated near the anus.
The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
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In the Baltimore markets four kinds of terrapin are sold -- not counting muskrat, which is sometimes disguised with sauce and sherry and served as a substitute.
American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
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This opossum, which is black and white, swims in the streams like a muskrat or otter, catching fish and living in burrows which open under water.
IV. The Headwaters of the Paraguay
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Many species of warblers sensitive to forest fragmentation live there, too, along with beavers, muskrats, deer, foxes, raccoons, opossums, groundhogs, and other four-legged animals.
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The Rodentia also includes beavers, muskrats, porcupines, woodchucks, chipmunks, squirrels, prairie dogs, marmots, chinchillas, voles, lemmings, and many others.
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Among them are Queen Elizabeth II, Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Sir John A. MacDonald festooned in mink, beaver, muskrat, seal and rabbit.
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Mill Creek foraging parties may have opportunistically harvested a number of resources from these wetlands including nesting waterfowl, muskrats, and arrowhead tubers.
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The region teemed with muskrat, beaver, wolverine, otter, wolf, fox and bear.
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The Rodentia also includes beavers, muskrats, porcupines, woodchucks, chipmunks, squirrels, prairie dogs, marmots, chinchillas, voles, lemmings, and many others.
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Her coffin was lovingly wrapped in muskrat, beaver and fox furs and lowered into the ground by her family.
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Like beavers, muskrats build lodges out of sticks, twigs, cattails and bulrushes, reinforcing them with mud.
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He is helped by local creatures like a stinkpot turtle, a spring peeper, a muskrat, a kingfisher and a mallard duck.
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Not a raccoon nor a muskrat is the wayfarer likely to meet with here to-night; but the gray rat of civilization is to be dimly discerned, as he lopes along the gutters in his nightly prowl.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867
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Always muskeg marks the limit of big game and the beginning of the ground of the little fellows -- waupoos, the rabbit; and musquash, the muskrat; and sakwasew, the mink; and nukik, the otter; and wuchak or pekan, the fisher.
The Canadian Commonwealth
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Muskrat Falls t 'run too which would be th' endin 'o' me, sure.
Ungava Bob A Winter's Tale
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The muskrat was a very good swimmer, indeed, and as soon as she reached the water she plunged in and swam about, to show Sammie and Susie how it ought to be done.
Sammie and Susie Littletail
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From the Indian languages come chipmunk, mackinaw (a bush jacket), moose, muskeg (boggy, mossy land), muskrat.
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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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A family of mergansers and a lone muskrat were spectators as the fledgling splashed about until his body was cooled and invigorated.
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I am more than half persuaded that the muskrat is a wise little animal, and that on the subject of the weather, especially, he possesses some secret that I should be glad to know.
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
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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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Canada geese, muskrats, groundhogs, beavers, and various bird species may cause nuisance problems in and around the pond.
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Part of the year the muskrat is a social animal; at other seasons it is solitary.
The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
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They take other small rodents, shrews, rabbits, gophers, bats, and muskrats as well.
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Hence the mink is not so much a threat to the muskrat population as a direct competitor with muskrat trappers.
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No one would expect detailed management histories of otters, beavers, muskrats, raptorial birds, and yet the success story of the Yellowstone cutthroat trout is worth telling.
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Darwin provides examples such as the rhea and ostrich, agouti and rabbit, coypu and beaver, capybara and muskrat.
Convergence
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Like beavers, muskrats build lodges out of sticks, twigs, cattails and bulrushes, reinforcing them with mud.
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The muskrat is a skilled engineer, and delights in tunnelling.
The Human Side of Animals
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The break in the wall was called by burling muskrats.
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