A small animal with a big personality is searching for her forever home.

A group of ferrets is most commonly called a "business" due to their constant activity. The term "business" evolved from the ...

A slender North American predator not seen in parts of Ohio for 200 years has started returning to its former habitat. The fisher was extirpated from the state in the 19th century due to fur trapping.

The data were compiled without any restrictions, and considered all the different ecoregions in which the species is known to occur. The references cited in the papers identified in the literature ...

Ferrets (Mustela putorius furo) are carnivorous mammals that belong to the weasel family Mustelidae. They are widespread throughout Europe, and have established feral populations in New Zealand and ...

A large-scale investigation of carnivoran brain diversity, providing a unified description of folding patterns, their relationship to behaviour and ecology, and the foundation for future ...

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Animal kingdom classification is an important system for understanding how all living organisms are related. Based on the Linnaeus method, species are arranged and grouped based on shared ...