RATEL  , or See also:

• HONEY (Chin. me ; Sansk. madhu, mead, honey; cf. A.S. medo, medu, mead; Gr. p Xt, in which 0 or b is changed into X; Lat. mel ; Fr. miel ; A.S. hung ; Ger. Honig)

HONEY-See also:

• BADGER

BADGER, the name of certain See also:

• INDIAN

Indian and See also:

• AFRICAN

African small clumsy-looking creatures of about the See also:

• SIZE

size and See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance of badgers, representing the genus Mellivora in the See also:

• FAMILY

family Mustelidae (see See also:

• CARNIVORA

CARNIVORA) . Two See also:

• SPECIES

species of ratel are commonly recognized, the Indian (M. indica), and the African (M. ratel), which ranges over See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa, but a See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

black ratel from the Ituri See also:

• FOREST

forest has been separated as M. See also:

• COTTON
• COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
• COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
• COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (1813–1866)
• COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
• COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

cotton . Both the two former are See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron-See also:

• GREY, CHARLES GREY, 2ND EARL (1764-1845)
• GREY, HENRY GREY, 3RD EARL (1802-1894)
• GREY, LADY JANE (1537-1554)
• GREY, SIR EDWARD
• GREY, SIR GEORGE (1812–1898)

grey on the upper parts, and black below, a See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style of coloration rare among mammals, as the upper See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of the See also:

• BODY

body is in the See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

majority darker than the See also:

• LOWER

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 (a word common to Teut. and Rom. languages; probably first adopted in Teut.; the ultimate origin is not known; Skeat suggests the root rad-, to scratch; cf. Ger. Ratte, Dan. rotte, Fr. rat, &c.)

Rat (M. norvegicus) . The body is stout and thickly built; the legs are See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short and strong, and armed, especially the anterior pair, with See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long curved claws; the tail is short; and the ears are reduced to rudiments . The See also:

• SKULL

skull is conical, stout and heavy, and the See also:

• TEETH (O.E. Eel); plural of tooth, O.E. top)

teeth, although sharper and less rounded than those of badgers, are less suited to a carnivorous See also:

• DIET

diet than those of stoats, weasels and See also:

• MARTENS
• MARTENS, GEORG FRIEDRICH VON (1756-1821)

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

line See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

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

geographical races of a single species . Dr T . C . Jerdon states that the Indian ratel is found throughout the whole of See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India, from the extreme See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south to the See also:

• FOOT

foot of the See also:

• HIMALAYA

Himalaya, chiefly in hilly districts, where it has greater facilities for constructing the holes and See also:

• DENS, PETER (1690-1775)

dens in which it lives; but also in the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north of India in alluvial plains, where the See also:

• BANKS, GEORGE LINNAEUS (1821-1881)
• BANKS, NATHANIEL PRENTISS (1816–1894)
• BANKS, SIR JOSEPH
• BANKS, THOMAS (1735-1805)

banks of large See also:

• RIVERS
• RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, or WYDEVILLE, 2ND EARL (c. 1442—1483)
• RIVERS, EARL
• RIVERS, RICHARD SAVAGE, 4TH EARL (c. 1660—1712)

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

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

grave-digger .

" Dr W . T . See also:

• BLANFORD, WILLIAM THOMAS (1832-1905)

Blanford, in the See also:

• FAUNA

Fauna of See also:

• BRITISH

British India, is of See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion that the reproach is without See also:

• FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

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 (through the French from Lat. habitus, from habere, to have, hold, or, in a reflective sense, to be in a certain condition; in many of the English senses the French use habitude, not habit)

habit of tumbling See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head over heels . (R .