Weasels

The one source Strike does not condone is theft. If you steal then you are a weasel and a coward. 

This example demonstrates the most challenging problem of flavor chemistry, ie, each flavor problem may require its own analytical approach however, a sensory analysis is always required. The remaining unknown odorants demand the most sensitive and selective techniques, and methods of concentration and isolation that preserve the sensory properties of complex and often dehcate flavors. Furthermore, some of the subtle odors in one system will be first identified in very different systems, like o-amino acetophenone in weasels and fox grapes. 

Cadmium biomagnifies in terrestrial food chains and tends to accumulate in liver and kidneys of older apex organisms (Scheuhammer 1987). This process was documented in the chain of soil to vegetation to invertebrates to upper trophic level consumers, including roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), bam owls (Tyto alba), weasels (Mystela nivalis), and kestrels (Falco tinnunculus Gorree... 

Prey organisms of weasel, stoat and polecat liver total PCBs 30-813 LW 11... 

Borowski, Z. (1998) Influence of weasel (Mustela nivalis Linneaus, 1776) odour on spatial behaviour of root voles (Microtus oeconomus Pallas, 1776). Can. J. Zool. 76, 1799-1804. 

The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why we put these stories in each other s memory. This is how people care for themselves.—From Crow and Weasel by Barry Lopez... 

Dr. Mark s World War I exploits (including an escape from an enemy prisoner-of-war camp) read like a Hollywood film script. During World War II, he contributed to the Allied cause through development of plastic-coated tents, mildewproof fabrics, gasproof clothing, an amphibious truck, and the snow vehicle called the Weasel. ... 

Semenza, J.C. and Weasel, L.H., Molecular epidemiology in environmental health the potential of tumor suppressor gene p53 as a biomarker, Env. Health Perspect., 105, 155, 1997. 

In laboratory tests, least weasels, Mustela nivalis, were more attracted to estrous than diestrous urine of prairie deer mice, Peromyscus maniculatus bairdii. This may increase the weasel s preying chances through the presence of pups in the case of postpartum estrus or estrous females may indicate a higher population density (Cushing, 1984). 

Rice rat Rattus rattoides Anal gland secretion Weasel Mustda sibirica Self-defense Xu etal, 1995... 

The rice rat, Rattus rattoides, from southern China also self-anoints, at least in the laboratory. Presented with filter paper carrying anal glandsecretion from the weasel Mustda sibirica, rice rats chewed the paper and rubbed the pieces against both of their flanks. Even laboratory-born naive rice rats anointed themselves in this fashion. Weasel or fox urine did not release anointing behavior (Xu etal, 1995). 

Deer mice, P. maniculatus, on an island (Moresby Island, Gulf Islands, British Columbia) that now lacks their usual predator, the short-tailed weasel, M. erminea, still respond to its odor. However, they only show the more delayed and prolonged stress-type, opioid-sensitive behavior. By contrast, this island population has lost its fear and flight responses, which are benzodiazepine sensitive and more immediate. Mainland deer mice that are sympatric with weasels show both types of response (Kavaliers, 1990). 

A selective preference by least weasels for oestrus versus dioestrous urine of prairie deer mice. Animal Behaviour 31,1263-1265. 

Jedrzejewska, B. and Jedrzejewski, W. (1990). Antipredator behaviour of bank voles and prey choice by weasels enclosure experiments. AnnalesZoologiciEennici 17,321-328. 

Kavaliers, M. (1990). Responsiveness of deer mice to a predator, the short-tailed weasel population differences and neuromodulatory mechanisms. Physiological Zoology 63, 388-407. 

Stoddart, D. M. (1976). Effects of weasels (Mustela nivalis) on trapped samples of their prey. Oecologia 22,439-441. 

H. P. Weasel, T. Iversen, and D. R. Bundle, Acid-catalysed benzylation and allylation by alkyl trichloroacetimidates, J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. 7 2247 (198S). 

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