Three baby polecat-ferret hybrids are still missing 10 days after being stolen from a garden. Durham Constabulary say the six-week-old pets disappeared from a hutch in the garden of a house in Moor ...

Black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes) and Siberian polecats (M. eversmannii) are medium-sized (about 1 kg) mustelids with similar ecological and morphological characteristics. We measured basal ...

Mix together one hunky American Indian with a penchant for loincloths, a vulnerable pioneer woman harboring a dark secret from her past and a family of endangered black-footed ferrets, and you’ve got ...

GOOD news goes down well in these uncertain, climate-changing times, and confirmation of the polecat’s continuing spread from its historical Welsh stronghold is just what the doctor ordered. A recent ...

What would you say is the UK’s least known mammal? It’s not the wild cat, nor the pine marten nor even the dubious legion of big cats stalking the countryside just out of camera range. Did you know ...

Polecats have been making a comeback in Oxfordshire after years of being virtually extinct. They have been seen in several parts of the county as these carnivores have gradually spread eastwards from ...

Rare polecats have been spotted at the Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust’s (BBOWT) College Lake Nature Reserve near Tring in Buckinghamshire. One lone polecat was first seen poking its head out of ...

Another Life: Ginger Harris kept a ferret down his jumper but he wouldn't let me hold it. "She doesn't know you," he demurred. "She'll put up a pong." This scene from a Sussex childhood re-awoke upon ...

Polecats have been making a comeback in Oxfordshire after years of being virtually extinct. They have been seen in several parts of the county as these carnivores have gradually spread eastwards from ...