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Marbled polecat - Vormela peregusna

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Zoo Magdeburg
When I was a docent we had one in our education program. Unfortunately it was one of the few education animals that docents could not handle themselves (it had to be a keeper). However we had a nice setup of a large acrylic container on wheels with a divider in the middle. A keeper could put the polecat in one side for us and we could put a domestic ferret in the other side and wheel it out to show visitors the difference between the wild and domestic forms.
 
@Arizona Docent

"A keeper could put the polecat in one side for us and we could put a domestic ferret in the other side and wheel it out to show visitors the difference between the wild and domestic forms."

They weren't doing a very good job of it then, given this isn't the wild form of a ferret :p it's not even within the same genus, nor all that closely related. Marbled Polecat are actually sister to grisons and zorillas!

@CheeseChameleon2007

It's the *only* member of its genus :P
 

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Picture hunter - October 2020
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NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D750
Aperture
ƒ/5.6
Focal length
300.0 mm
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1/500 second(s)
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1600
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Off, did not fire
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Zoo Magdeburg (18)-4.jpg
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Tue, 06 October 2020 9:44 AM
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