The first known case of the novel coronavirus in a non-captive wild animal has now been confirmed, according to an alert issued by the United States Department of Agriculture. A wild mink in Utah ...

Almost a year into the pandemic, a seemingly healthy wild mink tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in Utah. No free-roaming animal was known to have caught the virus before, although researchers had ...

A wild mink in Utah is the first free-ranging native animal anywhere to test positive for COVID-19. It was found and tested near an infected fur farm, and that has some national groups raising alarms.

Animal-control officers won’t always collect escaped mink, an animal advocate in Utah told me, because they consider them “wild” animals outside their purview. Mink farmers don’t want them ...

A museum collection from Cornell University was used to study skulls of wild American mink while European fur farms provided skulls of domesticated animals. For the feral population, Dechmann and ...

A wild mink in Utah was the first wild animal in the U.S. found with COVID-19. Credit: Peter Trimming via Wikipedia, CC BY-SA Gorillas have been affected by human viruses in the past and are ...

White-tailed deer and mink are the only two species of animals that have been found harboring the virus in the wild. White-tailed deer and mink are the only two species of animals that have been ...

In addition to being bad for wild animals like other mink, releasing the mink is also bad for the mink themselves. "Mass mink releases are one of the most horrifically cruel things a person can do ...

the team had to identify a sample of animals where feral and wild animals were isolated. Luckily, the American mink has this exact distribution. Native to North America, mink have been domesticated ...

It needed to have separate wild (never domesticated), feral ... Dechmann said in a press release. “Animals with flexible brains, like the mink, could restore their brains even if they had ...