Sunday, March 20, 2016

European polecat

The European polecat, also known as the black polecat, forest polecat, or fitch, is a species of mustelid native to Europe and Morocco in North Africa. There are 7 subspecies of the European polecat and they are the Common, Welsh, Mediterranean, Scottish, Domestic ferret, Middle Russian, and Carpathian polecat. One of the subspecies went extinct and that would be the Scottish polecat but polecats still live in some parts of Western Scotland. The Welsh polecat lives in England and Wales and the Mediterranean polecat lives in the Southern and Western parts of the Iberian peninsula. This is a common polecat, the nominate subspecies. The main picture on the Wikipedia of a subspecies is the Welsh polecat of England and Wales.

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