The cat has been observed searching for musk rats in their holes.
2.
The Dutch exploited the musk rats in the sewers by exporting them to extract musk oil.
3.
However, Kipling's mistaken use of the name'musk rat'has led to confusion with the unrelated North American muskrat ( " Ondatra zibethicus " ), and the latter species, not found in India, was ( erroneously ) illustrated in the " Jungle Book ".