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RATEL , or See also:HONEY-See also:BADGER, the name of certain See also:Indian and See also:African small clumsy-looking creatures of about the See also:size and See also:appearance of badgers, representing the genus Mellivora in the See also:family Mustelidae (see See also:CARNIVORA). Two See also:species of ratel are commonly recognized, the Indian (M. indica), and the African (M. ratel), which ranges over See also:Africa, but a See also:black ratel from the Ituri See also:forest has been separated as M. See also:cotton. Both the two former are See also:iron-See also:grey on the upper parts, and black below, a See also:style of coloration rare among mammals, as the upper See also:side of the See also:body is in the See also:great See also:majority darker than the See also:lower.
See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown See also:Rat (M. norvegicus).
The body is stout and thickly built; the legs are See also:short and strong, and armed, especially the anterior pair, with See also:long curved claws; the tail is short; and the ears are reduced to rudiments. The See also:skull is conical, stout and heavy, and the See also:teeth, although sharper and less rounded than those of badgers, are less suited to a carnivorous See also:diet than those of stoats, weasels and See also:martens. The two ratels may be distinguished by the fact that the African species has a distinct See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:line See also:round the body at the junction of the grey of the upper side with the black of the lower, while in the Indian this line is absent; the teeth also of the former are larger, rounder and heavier than those of the latter. The two are, however, so nearly allied that they might almost be considered See also:geographical races of a single species. Dr T. C. Jerdon states that the Indian ratel is found throughout the
whole of See also:India, from the extreme See also:south to the See also:foot of the See also:Himalaya, chiefly in hilly districts, where it has greater facilities for constructing the holes and See also:dens in which it lives; but also in the See also:north of India in alluvial plains, where the See also:banks of large See also:rivers afford equally suitable localities wherein to make its lair. It is stated to live usually in pairs, and to eat rats, birds, frogs, white ants and various See also:insects, and in the north of India it is accused of digging out dead bodies, and several of the native names mean " See also:grave-digger. " Dr W. T. See also:Blanford, in the See also:Fauna of See also:British India, is of See also:opinion that the reproach is without See also:foundation. Like its Cape congener it occasionally partakes of honey, and is often destructive to poultry. In confinement the Indian ratel becomes tame and even playful, displaying a See also:habit of tumbling See also:head over heels. (R.
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