MARMOSET
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MARMOSET

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, MARMOSET: and instruct thee how to snare the nimble marmoset. Marmosets are South American mammals which were exotic pets in the Tudor period. Many species are currently threatened or declining in the wild.

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WEASEL
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WEASEL

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, WEASEL: I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel suck eggs. Weasel’s the smallest carnivore in the UK gets a bad press in Shakespeare.

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FOX
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FOX

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, FOX: for treason is trusted like a fox, never so tame, so cherished and locked up, will have a wild trick of his ancestors. Foxes epitomise cunning and deceit for Shakespeare.

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WILD BOAR
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WILD BOAR

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, WILD BOAR: A gallant curtal-ax upon my thigh, a boar-spear in my hand. Wild Boar became extinct in Britain but have now re-established through escapes and releases.

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POLECAT/FITCHEW
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POLECAT/FITCHEW

Shakespeare Species Quote of the Day, POLECAT or FITCHEW: ‘Tis such another fitchew - marry, a perfumed one! Polecat was used as an insult in Elizabethan England and the Polecat was almost exterminated in Britain by the early 20th Century.

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