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A wild male mink weighs about 1 kg (2 lb 3 oz) and is about 60 cm (23 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) in length. Farm-bred males can reach 3.2 kg (7 lb 1 oz). The female weighs about 600 g (1 lb 5 oz) and reaches a length of about 50 cm (19 + 1 ⁄ 2 in). The sizes above do not include the tail, which can be from 12.8 to 22.8 cm (5 + 1 ⁄ 16 to 9 in). Mink fur ...
Kenai mink N. v. melampeplus. Elliot, 1904 Darker than energumenos, it has dark chocolate-coloured fur with slightly paler underparts and a white spot on the chin. Males measure 28 inches (71 cm) in total length and 7.2 inches (18 cm) in tail length. [9] The Kenai Peninsula and Cook Inlet: Common mink N. v. mink. Peale and Palisot de Beauvois, 1796
The domestic mink was given its trinomial name Neogale vison domesticus (then Mustela vison f. domesticus) by Eddy Decuypere in his work Is the Mink Domesticated? from 2011. [6] Formerly, all mink (including the sea mink) were placed in the genus Mustela. A 2000 study reclassified the domestic mink, American mink, and sea mink into the genus ...
American mink, Neogale vison, creek and lake edges; Fisher, ... Hares and rabbits. From the Atlas of Birds, Mammals, Amphibians, and Reptiles in Wyoming: [40]
Mink are opportunistic hunters, eating almost anything that they can kill; important food sources include fish, birds, bird eggs, insects, crabs, clams, and small mammals. Wolves, foxes, hawks, owls, lynx, and river otters occasionally prey on mink, but the effects of predation on mink population have been studied relatively little.
Rabbits can happily eat fennel bulbs and stalks. It has a naturally sweet, licorice-like taste that makes it so appealing. It is high in fiber as well as vitamin C-, potassium- and manganese-rich.
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Mink (Neogale vison) — rather common in streams, ponds, lakes and marshes; Mink. Fisher (Pekania pennanti) — Fishers live in large, thickly wooded forests; the species was extirpated from southern New England when forests were cleared and was absent for more than a century. From 1989 to 1991, they were reintroduced from New Hampshire and by ...