Water voles are declining, but brown hare and polecat populations are rising. Greater and lesser horseshoe bat populations have risen 32% and 41% respectively over the past 10 years.
domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits.
A weasellike, usually albino mammal(Mustela putorius furo)related to the polecat and often trained to hunt rats or rabbits.
The polecat is just as much a sneak and a thief as it’s domesticated cousin and the name reflects that.
