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ferret | American Dictionary

ferret
noun[ C ]
us/ˈfer·ɪt/
a type of weasel (= small animal with a long, thin body) that usually has black feet and black fur around its eyes

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Inbreeding and outbreeding depression in the captive propagation of black-footed ferrets.
Thus, although temperature might explain the differences between tur tles and some mammals (cats and ferrets), other factors must explain other interspecies differences.
In ferrets reared normally, the decline in the cardinal bias occurred as orientation selectivity increased.
No study has yet ferreted out data practices that industry declines to divulge.
Results are shown for two ferrets (squares and circles) from which it proved possible to obtain complete data sets.
The present results demonstrate that serotonin application evoked hyperpolarizing responses even in 35-week-old ferrets, although the magnitude of this response was smaller than observed in younger animals.
He showed the heuristic value of such mistakes, by describing the growth of mathematics as a process of systematically ferreting out mistakes in existing and new mathematical proofs and concepts.
Retinal projections to the pretectum, accessory optic system and superior colliculus in pigmented and albino ferrets.
Despite this variation, both across the same hemisphere and among individual ferrets, it is possible to recognize consistent features that characterize the distribution of ocular dominance domains in this species.
We tested this idea by measuring the distribution of cor tical orientation preference and the degree of orientation selectivity in developing normal and dark-reared ferrets using intrinsic signal optical imaging.
An analysis of orientation and ocular dominance patterns in the visual cor tex of cats and ferrets.
Optically imaged maps of orientation preference in primary visual cortex of cats and ferrets.
Therefore, much of what we have learned about cellular mechanisms of visual function and development has come from studies of highly visual carnivores such as cats and ferrets.
In dark-reared ferrets, an even greater cor tical anisotropy emerged, but angle maps in these animals developed an apparently anomalous overrepresentation of near ver tical orientations.
240 turtles than in cats and ferrets.
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