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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 ...
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This list of mammals in Pennsylvania consists of 66 species currently believed to occur wild in the state. This excludes feral domesticated species such as feral cats and dogs . Several species recently lived wild in Pennsylvania, but are now extirpated (locally, but not globally, extinct).
Up to 8,000 mink are on the loose in Pennsylvania, and residents are being encouraged to stay away from them. Pennsylvania State Police troopers say someone cut holes in the fence of the Richard ...
4.1 Hunting and diet. 4.2 ... fox, marten, mink, otter, bobcat ... in the Catskill mountains of New York and the Appalachian Mountains of Pennsylvania, Maryland ...
Sep. 19—SUNBURY — State police continue to probe an alleged break in at a Northumberland County mink farm that resulted in the release of 6,000 to 8,000 minks.