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a weasel-shaped killer that hunts porcupines by going for the only soft spot — the face
means A dark-furred, weasel-family carnivore (Pekania pennanti) of North American forests, famous for being one of the few predators that successfully kills and eats porcupines.
from Despite the name, the fisher doesn't fish — and the word likely has nothing to do with fishing at all. It's probably a corruption of an older term for the animal's pelt: compare the French 'fiche' or 'fichet' for a polecat, and the Dutch 'visse,' both used for furbearers prized by the pelt trade. English speakers, hearing 'fitch'-like words for the fur, seem to have reshaped them into the familiar 'fisher' — a tidy case of a name drifting toward a word people already knew, even though it fit the creature poorly.
- not a fish
- It eats them but climbs trees instead
- porcupine slayer
- One of few predators that kills them
- comeback story
- Nearly trapped to extinction, now thriving again
- reverse ankles
- Rotating feet let it descend trees headfirst
- silent reputation
- Folklore blames its scream on something else
st john's fisher — college at the university of cambridge founded in 1896
fisher of men — nickname for jesus christ, matthew 4:19, about apostles peter and andrew