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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
Mink prey on fish and other aquatic life, small mammals, birds, and eggs; adults may eat young mink. [11] Mink raised on farms primarily eat expired cheese, eggs, fish, meat and poultry slaughterhouse byproducts, dog food, and turkey livers, as well as prepared commercial foods. [12] A farm with 3,000 mink may use as much as two tons of food ...
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 ...
Population sizes are largely unknown, though two species, the sea mink and Japanese otter, were hunted to extinction in 1894 and 1979, respectively, and several other species are endangered. Some species have been domesticated, e.g. the ferret and some populations of the South American tayra .
A mink farm (after 1900) A mink farm in the United States A mink farm in Poland Fur farming is the practice of breeding or raising certain types of animals for their fur . Most of the world's farmed fur was produced by European farmers.
The mink's tail is short, and does not exceed half the animal's body length (constituting about 40% of its length). [17] The European mink's skull is less elongated than the kolonok's, with more widely spaced zygomatic arches and has a less massive facial region. In general characteristics, the skull is intermediate in shape between that of the ...
Up until the invention of the fur sewing machine, mink fur was unpopular. Wild mink are small mammals, males weighing 1 kg (2 lb 3 oz), making them difficult to work into a full garment. Once the fur sewing machine and fur farming became popular it was possible to breed farmed minks to be significantly larger and to use a method called "letting ...
This is a list of Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans in the U.S. Congress.. Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent. The term refers to a panethnic group that includes diverse populations with ancestral origins in East Asia, South Asia or Southeast Asia, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau.