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The Desman and the Musk-rat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

V. G. Skoptsov
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The desman Desmana moschata is a valuable fur-bearing animal of Russian rivers. Numbers were building up until the introduction of the musk-rat from Canada brought a fierce and aggressive competitor for its habitat. The author suggests that the musk-rat is the cause of the decline in the numbers of the desman and is responsible, in at least one lake, for the disappearance of shell-fish, insects, fish, water rats and some breeding birds.

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Research Article
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Oryx , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , April 1967, pp. 54 - 56
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1967

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