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muskrat
muskrat Large, aquatic
rodent (a type of
vole) native to North America. It is a good swimmer, with partly webbed hind feet and a long, scaly tail. Its commercially valuable fur (musquash) is glossy brown and durable. Length, including tail: to 53.5cm (21in); weight: to 1.8kg (4lb). Family Cricetidae; species Ondatra obscura and O. zibethica.
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Muskrat ramble: imagine living in a house built of pizza. When you get hungry, you could just pull off part of the wall and bite right into it. On cold winter days, there would be little need to go out grocery shopping. But if you got too hungry, you might eat a hole right through the wall, and be left with a nasty draft and an opening that would appear inviting to unwelcome guests.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: New York State Conservationist; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...is what the life of a muskrat is like. Although muskrats will supplement their...characteristics of the muskrat. Muskrats have long been prized...wetland area, look for muskrats and signs of muskrat activity. Take a moment...
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 "Post-Tribune (IN)")
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Muskrats ramble across Hoosier State lakes
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 1/8/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...progresses, the male muskrat aggressively begins...territory. Often, muskrats trapped in late...frown upon trapping muskrat for fur, in reality...When the number of muskrats residing in an area...that still pursue muskrat report finding very few, if any, muskrats in traditional ...
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Muskrat Love Losing Appeal; Fewer Trappers Are Hunting Area's Coastal Waterways
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/11/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...where the occasional muskrat-skinning contest...more than 100,000 muskrats a year, according...is about 15,000 muskrats. The number of...licenses and specific muskrat figures are harder...selling a pair of muskrats to customers for...best way to cook a muskrat. Billy Marshall...
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 "Bulletin (Southern California Academy of Sciences)")
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Muskrats and sage pondweed in Valle de Mexicali: opportunistic feeding on a spontaneous resource.(Research Notes)
Magazine article from: Bulletin (Southern California Academy of Sciences); 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...following morning, 16 muskrats engaged in this type...feeding behaviors by muskrats on sage pondweed. The...The other was by a muskrat which gathered a clump...abruptly, and the second muskrat continued to eat the remaining forage. Muskrats usually feed at night...
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muskrat lovely.(Front)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 3/3/2009; 700+ words
; ...Robbins skinned five brown muskrats with a paring knife...International World Championship Muskrat Skinning competition...skinning and selling muskrats. Few people here make...trapping and selling muskrats anymore. It's mostly...what with the price of muskrat meat $2.50 to $5...
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Muskrat ramble; They're messing up a new harbor park
Newspaper article from: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA; 9/23/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...turned out to be a muskrat mecca. The foot...no wetlands. The muskrats burrowed into the...hunters seeking muskrat pelts to do the...killed about 1,000 muskrats, all of which are...enough to resist muskrat attacks. After...off many of the muskrats, he said. A prolonged...
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Muskrat Season in Full Swing in Delaware
News Wire article from: AP Online; 1/2/2003; ; 700 words
; ...to the annual World Muskrat Skinning Championships...took about 121,000 muskrats, down from 827,000...Fort Delaware. While muskrats are trapped primarily...year at the prospect of muskrat meat. Bailey's Seafood...near Odessa advertises muskrats along with oysters and...
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Muskrat trapping requires hard work, proper weather
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 1/13/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...and noted several muskrat huts -- those piles...water holes that muskrats build for homes...boys noted that the muskrat didn't seem very...each evening as muskrats leave their burrows...couple of small muskrats before you're...produced one more muskrat. Later that night...
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Year of the muskrat. (through the four seasons with a muskrat)
Magazine article from: Ranger Rick; 7/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...fresh, so the muskrat takes a few bites. Muskrats eat mostly the...There, too, muskrats share their homes...gone, the male muskrat swims on the...warns other male muskrats to stay away...burrow, a female muskrat nurses her newborn...
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Effects of muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) lodge construction on invertebrate communities in a Great Lakes coastal wetland
Magazine article from: The American Midland Naturalist; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...stands created by muskrats. We compared density...open water areas at muskrat lodges and in adjacent...cattail stands than at muskrat lodges. Water temperature...results indicate that muskrats alter abiotic conditions...population densities muskrats can denude large...are affected by ...
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muskrat
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
muskrat North American aquatic rodent . The common muskrats, species of the genus...States. A common muskrat resembles a large...marshy shallows. Muskrat burrows are constructed...underwater opening. Muskrats do not build dams...
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Muskrat v. United States
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
Muskrat v. United States, 219 U.S. 346 (1911...named Cherokee Indians, including David Muskrat, were permitted to bring suit against...real case or controversy required. The Muskrat case was thus not within the Court's...
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Fur Trade
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...processors bartered their deerskins and beaver, raccoon, and muskrat pelts for alcohol, firearms, metal tools, and other manufactured...as well as limited domestic production of mink, fox, and muskrat coats and accessories, which employed numerous individual...
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Advisory Opinion
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...efforts appear under the guise of an actual lawsuit. Thus, in Muskrat v. United States , 219 U.S. 346, 31 S. Ct. 250, 55...by the Constitution. Echoing the convictions expressed in Muskrat , Supreme Court Justice felix frankfurter, writing on advisory...
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Columbian Exchange
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...exchanged many kinds of wild animals. For instance, black and brown rats were brought to America, and gray squirrels and muskrats to Eurasia. The exchange of domesticated animals, however, was more important. Amerindians were much less effective as...
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