Bob Church <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 
>If the polecat is so good, why is the American mink filling its niche in
>Europe?
 
It isn't very much if you mean the European polecat Mustela putorius (but
it is successful in exploiting a similar niche where there weren't any M
putorius, due to climate).
 
It _has_ displaced another polecat, the European mink M lutreola, almost
totally in just a few decades.
 
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 Urban Fredriksson  http://www.alfaskop.net/%7Egriffon/
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[Posted in FML issue 2089]