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The European mink (Mustela lutreola), also known as the Russian mink and Eurasian mink, is a semiaquatic species of mustelid native to Europe. It is similar in colour to the American mink , but is slightly smaller and has a less specialized skull. [ 2 ]
Mustela sibirica. COVID-19 can infect both the European mink (Mustela lutreola) and the American mink (Neogale vison).Ferrets are used to study COVID-19. [5] Ferrets get some of the same symptoms as humans, [6] but they get less sick than farmed mink. [7]
The American mink (Neogale vison) is larger and more adaptable than the European mink (Mustela lutreola) but, due to variations in size, an individual mink usually cannot be determined as European or American with certainty without looking at the skeleton. However, all European mink have a large white patch on their upper lip, whereas only some ...
Genus Mustela – Linnaeus, 1758 – fifteen species Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range ... (Middle European mink) M. l. lutreola (Northern mink)
The rare European mink (Mustela lutreola) is one of the most endangered mustelid species. [16] The ferret, a domesticated European polecat, is a fairly common pet.
A polecat–mink hybrid, also known as khor'-tumak by furriers [1] and khonorik by fanciers, [2] is a hybrid between a European polecat (Mustela putorius) and a European mink (M. lutreola). Such hybridisation is very rare in the wild, and typically only occurs where European mink are declining. [3]
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American mink (Neogale vison) were introduced as a farm animal in Denmark in the mid-1920s [7] – European mink (Mustela lutreola) have never been recorded in Denmark. [8] By the mid-1980s, Denmark was the second largest mink producer, behind the United States. [9]