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 Moor ...

Many wild polecats in Britain are part ferret. The weasel-like mammals have thoroughly interbred with their domesticated relatives as they have spread out from a small population in Wales. European ...

Polecats have been making a comeback in Oxfordshire after years of being virtually extinct. They have been seen in several parts of the county as these carnivores have gradually spread eastwards from ...

What would you say is the UK’s least known mammal? It’s not the wild cat, nor the pine marten nor even the dubious legion of big cats stalking the countryside just out of camera range. Did you know ...

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