Members of a clan can recognise each other by their smell. The badger has a special opening (called the subcaudal gland) under its tail, which produces a smelly liquid called musk. This musk is a soapy cream-coloured fatty substance (a bit like margarine in colour and texture).
The total average cost of the TAVI procedure was â¬ 22,876, of which 85% was attributable to the valve price, 7% to other material, 7% to staffing and 1% to logistics (Table 2).
Brent crude oil futures, which trade in London and are used as a benchmark to set prices for more than half of the worldâs oil, reached a record of $139.83 a barrel on June 30, 2008, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. By Jan. 13, the price had plunged 67 percent to $46.59.