Even individuals that appeared to be “pure” polecat based on physical features had ferret origins for much of their genome. The team also looked for genes in the English population of hybrid ...

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 ...

in that the county has the highest proportion of true polecats and fewer of the polecat-ferret hybrid. One of the problems of studying polecats is that they were the originators of ferrets.

The little animals are technically polecat-ferret hybrids. Their owner said: "I am devastated at the theft of my pets. They are only babies - I cannot believe that someone would be so heartless as ...

As mammal recorder for Norfolk I have received numerous reports in recent years of polecats or polecat-ferret hybrids. Around 2010 the first polecats were noted in the Thetford area, however, the ...

The babies are around six weeks old and are polecat-ferret hybrids.(Image: Durham Police) The victim said: “I am devastated at the theft of my pets. They are only babies - I cannot believe that ...

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in that the county has the highest proportion of true polecats and fewer of the polecat-ferret hybrid. One of the problems of studying polecats is that they were the originators of ferrets.