Illustration of a European polecat eating a common eel
Date 1896
Source A Handbook to the British Mammalia
Author Richard Lydekker (1849–1915)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lydekker_polecat.png

The European polecat (Mustela putorius), also known as the black polecat or forest polecat, or fitch, is a species of mustelid native to western Eurasia and North Africa.

The European eel or common eel (Anguilla anguilla) is a species of eel, a snake-like, catadromous fish. The European eel, Anguilla anguilla, is one of 19 species in their genus, found in the Northern Atlantic south to Mauritius, the Mediterranean, North and Baltic Seas and the rivers that feed into these ocean bodies.