Rare polecats have been spotted at the Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust’s (BBOWT) College Lake Nature Reserve near Tring in Buckinghamshire. One lone polecat was first seen poking its head out ...

Three baby polecat orphans have been rescued from three different locations. One of the creatures was just four weeks old when it was discovered in Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, and has had to be ...

A baby polecat has been rescued by the RSPCA near Taunton in Somerset, after it became separated from its mum. It was spotted by a member of the animal charity who found it, alone in a field ...

Three baby polecat-ferret hybrids are still missing 10 days after being stolen from a garden. Durham Constabulary say the six-week-old pets disappeared from a hutch in the garden of a house in ...

This is Polly the polecat – lucky to be alive after being found alongside her dead sibling.

THIS is Polly the polecat – lucky to be alive after being found alongside her dead sibling.

In the 1990s, a group of scientists used molecular analysis to show that skunks and polecats are in different subfamilies despite looking similar. Skunks are now part of their own family called ...

Many wild polecats in Britain are part ferret. The weasel-like mammals have thoroughly interbred with their domesticated relatives as they have spread out from a small population in Wales.