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Sable

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Carnivora
Family:Mustelidae
Genus:Martes
Species:M. zibellina
Binomial name
Martes zibellina
Linnaeus, 1758
The Sable (Martes zibellina) is a small mammal, closely akin to the marten, living in southernRussia near the Ural Mountains through Siberia and Mongolia to Hokkaidō in Japan. Its range in the wild originally extended through European Russia to Poland and Scandinavia. It has achieved fame for its fur, which is integrated into various clothes fashions (for example the shtreimel). Sables range in color from tan to black, black being the most prized. The top grade of black sable fur is called "black diamond".

Sables are diurnal predators, using their sense of smell and hearing to hunt for small prey. They have been observed to hide in their dens for days during periods such as snow storms, or when they are being hunted by humans. In the wild they are potentially vicious; although there are "domesticated" sables who have been described as playful, curious, and even "tame" (if taken from their mother at a young age). They are mostly terrestrial, hunting and constructing dens on the forest floor. They feed on chipmunks, squirrels, mice, small birds and fish. When primary sources are scarce they eat berries, vegetation, and pine nuts. When weather conditions are extreme they will store their prey in their den.

The name sable appears to be Slavonic in origin: compare Russian sobol, whence various languages have adapted the term: German Zobel, Dutch Sabel; the French zibelline Spanish cibelina, cebellina, Finnish soopeli and Mediaeval Latin zibellina derive from the Italian form. The English and Mediaeval Latin word sabellum comes from the Old French sable or saible.

Sable hair is highly prized by the fur trade. The so-called Kolinsky sable-hair brushes used for watercolor or oil painting are not however manufactured from sable hair, but that of the siberian weasel. The term has become a generic description for some black-furred animal breeds, such as sable cats or rabbits.

References

conservation status of a species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species continuing to survive either in the present day or the future. Many factors are taken into account when assessing the conservation status of a species: not simply the number remaining, but the
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Least Concern (LC) is an IUCN category assigned to extant species or lower taxa which have been evaluated but do not qualify for any other category. As such they do not qualify as threatened, nor Near Threatened, nor (prior to 2001) Conservation Dependent.
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Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

See below

Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
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Mammalia
Linnaeus, 1758

Subclasses & Infraclasses
  • Subclass †Allotheria*
  • Subclass Prototheria
  • Subclass Theria

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Carnivora
Bowdich, 1821

Families
  • 17, See classification

The diverse order Carnivora (IPA: /kɑrˈnɪvərə/
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Mustelidae
G. Fischer de Waldheim, 1817

Subfamilies

Lutrinae
Melinae
Mellivorinae
Taxideinae
Mustelinae
Mustelidae or Mustelids (from Latin mustela, weasel), commonly referred to as the weasel family
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Martes
Pinel, 1792

Species
  • Martes americana
  • Martes flavigula
  • Martes foina
  • Martes gwatkinsii
  • Martes martes
  • Martes melampus
  • Martes pennanti

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binomial nomenclature is the formal system of naming species. The system is also called binominal nomenclature (particularly in zoological circles), binary nomenclature (particularly in botanical circles), or the binomial classification system.
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Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linné)

Carl von Linné, Alexander Roslin, 1775. Currently owned by and hanging at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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Martes
Pinel, 1792

Species
  • Martes americana
  • Martes flavigula
  • Martes foina
  • Martes gwatkinsii
  • Martes martes
  • Martes melampus
  • Martes pennanti

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Mammalia
Linnaeus, 1758

Subclasses & Infraclasses
  • Subclass †Allotheria*
  • Subclass Prototheria
  • Subclass Theria

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Martes
Pinel, 1792

Species
  • Martes americana
  • Martes flavigula
  • Martes foina
  • Martes gwatkinsii
  • Martes martes
  • Martes melampus
  • Martes pennanti

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Anthem
Hymn of the Russian Federation


Capital
(and largest city) Moscow

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The Ural Mountains

Countries | Russia,Kazakhstan
Regions | Sverdlovsk Oblast,Perm Krai,Chelyabinsk Oblast,Kurgan Oblast,Orenburg Oblast,Tyumen Oblast,Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug,Yamalo-Nenets
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Siberia (Russian: Сиби́рь, Sibir); is a vast region on the eastern and North-Eastern part of the Russian Federation constituting almost all of Northern Asia and comprising a large part of the
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Anthem
"Монгол улсын төрийн дуулал"
National anthem of Mongolia
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Anthem
Hymn of the Russian Federation


Capital
(and largest city) Moscow

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Motto
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Anthem
Mazurek Dąbrowskiego   (Polish)
Dąbrowski's Mazurek
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Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region centred on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe which includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
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fur refers to the body hair of non-human mammals also known as the pelage (like the term plumage in birds). Fur comes from the coats of animals; the animal's coat may consist of short ground hair, long guard hair, and, in some cases, medium awn hair.
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A shtreimel or shtraml (Yiddish: שטרײַמל, pl. שטרײַמלעך shtreimlekh
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Tamias
Illiger, 1811

Species
25 species

Chipmunk is the common name for any small squirrel-like rodent species of the genus Tamias in the family Sciuridae.
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Sciuridae

Genera
Many, see the article Sciuridae.

A squirrel is a small or medium-sized rodent of the family Sciuridae. In the English-speaking world, it commonly refers to members of this family's genera Sciurus and Tamiasciurus
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MOUSE was founded in 1997 by entrepreneur Andrew Rasiej and Founding Executive Director Sarah Holloway. Along with leaders from the "high tech" community in New York City, MOUSE spearheaded the process of wiring public schools for Internet access in New York City.
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Aves
Linnaeus, 1758

Orders

About two dozen - see section below

Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrate animals.
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berry, in common parlance refers generically to any small fruit with multiple seeds. Aggregate fruits such as the blackberry, the raspberry, and the boysenberry are also berries in this sense, but not the botanical.
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