Striped polecats (Ictonyx striatus), or the African zorilla, are small carnivores that look like North American skunks but aren't. They're more closely related to weasels and have smaller, slender ...

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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.

THE polecat is returning to the Cheshire countryside for the first time in nearly a century. Wildlife experts have reported sightings of the animal near Macclesfield, Wilmslow and Middlewich.