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A small example of the ermine in all its nocturnal glory – notice the sporadic/elusive nature of his movements!
markknowles said,
March 20, 2007 at 5:22 pm
“Naturalists tell us that the Ermine is a little animal with pure white fur, and that when huntsmen want to catch it they use the following stratagem: they trace its tracks and its haunts, and daub them over with mud, and then they frighten it into running in that direction, and as soon as the ermine reaches the mud it stops and allows itself to be caught rather than run over the mud and sully and loose its whiteness, which it treasures more than its liberty and its life….” (Don Quixote, Part 1, Chapter xxxiii – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_quixote).
Even Cervantes understood and praised the sacred order of the Mustela!!…