Talk:Steppe polecat

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The empty headings follow the structure of the marbled polecat article recently spruced up by Wgors. MaxEnt 17:35, 16 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

http://ead.univ-angers.fr/~ecologie/RefMustelidneo.html

• MEAD RA & NEIRINCKX S 1990, Photomanipulation of sexual maturation and breeding cycle of the Steppe polecat Mustela eversmanni and other techniks for more rapid propagation of the species. J. Exp Zool 255: 232-238
• REMPE, U. 1970, Morphometrische Untersuchungen zur Kl rung der Verwandtschaft von Steppeniltis, Waldiltis und Frettchen. Verhand. Deutschen Zool. Gesellschaft, 3(7):186-367.

• HEPTNER, V. G. 1964, Über die morphologischen und geographischen Beziehungen zwischen Mustela putorius und M. eversmanni. Z. Säugetierk. 29: 321-330.
• MILLER BJ., BIGGINS DE, WEMMER C, POWELL RA, HANEBURY L, HORN D & VARGAS A 1990, Development of survival skills in Captive-raised Siberian polecats (Mustela eversmanni): I. Locating prey. Journal of Ethology 8:89-94.
• MILLER, B. J., D. E. BIGGINS, C. WEMMER, R. A. POWELL, L. CALVE, L. HANEBURY, AND T. WHARTON. L 1990, Development of survival skills in captive-raised Siberian polecats (Mustela eversmanni): II. Predator avoidance. Journal of Ethology 8:95-104.

Ever ref. above is for eversmanni. There is no eversmannii as listed in the species box.

Interesting material. It would be a nice addition to note which of these are most easily (too easily) perceived by human scent perception. In skunks the nose tasty chemical is ethyl mercaptin (sp?) which is sometimes used to flavour otherwise toxic odorless gasses. MaxEnt 11:08, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Good question. Though when the paper stated that all the volatile components identified had a sulfur component I jumped (perhaps erroneously)to the conclusion that those would also be detectable by our dull nasal faculties.wagors 14:26, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Zhang wrote this subject up more than once. He's a busy beaver.

• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12184403&dopt=Abstract
• http://chemse.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/30/9/727

More on scent in general

• http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Entomology/courses/en570/papers_2002/may.htm

I wanted to make a wikiproject about ferrets and weasels but it became to small a range so i have made a bigger wikiprojects including all animals in the Musteloidea super family which include both ferrets and weasels and much similar animals. Support would be appreceated.

This new wikiproject includes

you can find it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Weasels

i also made a little template for the project,

I hope you like it.

This wikiproject is for the superfamily of Musteloidea which currently and surprisingly does not have an article yet. This superfamily includes ferrets and weasels and all of our other furry little weasel like friends. Please put your name on it so this article could have it's very own wikiproject outside of wikiproject animals.

Teh Ferret 19:56, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It looks pretty dead in the current picture. --84.13.2.53 (talk) 20:04, 17 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]