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Recent Examples of muskrat
Their diet includes muskrats, a primary predator of freshwater mussels, which are now confirmed to carry radium.
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Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
The muskrats are depended on by bald eagles, and muskrats are probably the biggest consumer of the freshwater mussels.
—Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
Edward’s parenting was particularly industrious, requiring his children to paint their own rooms, make their own clothes and earn extra cash by trapping and skinning muskrats to sell their pelts.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024
The researchers also analyzed several other species raised for fur, meat, and medicinal purposes, including deer, muskrats, guinea pigs, rabbits, and badgers.
—Byjon Cohen, science.org, 5 Sep. 2024
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Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
The muskrats are depended on by bald eagles, and muskrats are probably the biggest consumer of the freshwater mussels.
—Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
Edward’s parenting was particularly industrious, requiring his children to paint their own rooms, make their own clothes and earn extra cash by trapping and skinning muskrats to sell their pelts.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024
The researchers also analyzed several other species raised for fur, meat, and medicinal purposes, including deer, muskrats, guinea pigs, rabbits, and badgers.
—Byjon Cohen, science.org, 5 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for muskrat
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The park has incredibly diverse terrain—coastal sand dunes, dense forests, meandering rivers, barrier islands—and fauna such as moose, beavers, and river otters.—
Steve Lyons,
AFAR Media,
20 Mar. 2025
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Painter and Jensen have seen beavers, muskrats, pond turtles, deer and black bears roaming the grounds.—
David Caraccio,
Sacramento Bee,
8 Mar. 2025
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The Harford County Health Department issued two rabies alerts this week— one on Tuesday for a raccoon that tested positive in the Forest Hill area, and another on Wednesday for a positive raccoon in Joppa.—
Brennan Stewart,
Baltimore Sun,
27 Mar. 2025
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Common raccoons, for instance, are cataloged as nocturnal in the scientific literature, but hundreds of observations from around the Americas showed instances of raccoon activity in the day, night, and twilight.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
26 Feb. 2025
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Costello is shown living the good life on Central Park West, walking dogs decked out in miniature mink coats, including a pomeranian in a fur beret.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
TIME,
20 Mar. 2025
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While Hathaway looked to Moncler for her XXL coat, Bieber and her stylist Dani Michelle found a floor-grazing faux mink coat from Ralph Lauren’s fall 1995 collection via vintage dealers The Reallist, which saw her through her last weeks of Aspen.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
16 Mar. 2025
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Marvel Rocket and Baby Groot Minifigure Recreate some of Rocket’s adventures from Guardians of the Galaxy with this buildable and poseable figure of the beloved racoon.—
Mia Huelsbeck,
People.com,
18 Jan. 2025
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The Ledge Light Health District said that a racoon found on Cedar Drive in the town of North Stonington was tested and found to be positive for rabies on December 9, 2024.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
12 Dec. 2024
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Yet, ballots were cast even during the Civil War and WWII so the MAGA crowd would have to pull a pretty big rabbit, like the Insurrection Act, out of the hat to break precedent and award Trump a third term.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
30 Mar. 2025
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Wednesday, April 9 Art and Soul: The monthly craft series for adults aged 50-plus offers the opportunity to make a decorative wooden rabbit from 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 9 at Community Park – Willow Room 306 at 13094 Civic Center Drive in Poway.—
Pomerado News,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Mar. 2025
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In August 2024, Wildlands Network launched daily roadkill surveys along US 64, cruising the highway and counting dead deer, bears, snakes, turtles, otters, bobcats, and other critters.—
Ben Goldfarb,
Vox,
14 Mar. 2025
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Animals whose parents struggle to feed them in The Americas include: bobcats, jaguars, bears, otters, whales, baby sharks doo doo doo doo doo doo, more bears, alligators, more bears, harpy eagles, penguins andtamarin monkeys.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
22 Feb. 2025
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Saxon badgers his younger brother, Lochlan (Sam Nivola) about putting on muscle, which is apparently achieved by drinking lots of protein shakes.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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Other examples of plantigrade mammals include humans, raccoons, wolverines, badgers, porcupines, and rabbits.—
Katie Hill,
Outdoor Life,
21 Feb. 2025
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At the same time, marten populations shot up and the researchers began to see their scat in new areas.—
Siddhant Pusdekar,
Journal Sentinel,
5 July 2024
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This acquisition will improve the habitat for Wisconsin’s endangered American marten, which has been facing a dwindling habitat.—
Noël Fletcher,
Forbes,
8 Dec. 2024
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“Muskrat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muskrat. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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