william killian <[log in to unmask]> writes:
 
>The 'albino' ferret is the original color of ferrets - the old literature
>makes this clear.
 
Perhaps, but sables have been with us for many generations.  Literature
from the 1870's is clear on the point that there were both albinos or
yellowish ferrets as well as those coloured almost exactly as polecats.
Did the ancient Greeks and Romans mention ferret colours in comparision
with polecats?
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 Urban Fredriksson  [log in to unmask]
[Posted in FML issue 1215]