An invasive species is a living organism—whether animal, plant, fungus, or microbe—that is not native to a particular ...

The government’s announcement to consult on a trail hunting ban is welcome but stops short of protecting all species of ...

Public health risks remain low, but experts in Europe are calling for more surveillance given the virus is so widespread ...

Brain Size Regrowth in Feral Minks A groundbreaking study by the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (Pohle et al., 2023) revealed that the brains of captive-bred minks had shrunk by about 25% ...

Otter and mink are semi-aquatic mammals that resemble one another in quite a few ways. In fact, they are so similar that people often mistake them for one another when seen in the wild. We are going ...

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 ...

Mink on fur farms incubate diseases such as COVID-19 and avian influenza, creating the perfect conditions for new variants to jump to humans—with potentially devastating results. Mink farms risk ...

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 ...

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 ...

The farmed mink in Poland again highlight the risk of spillbacks by suggesting an unknown reservoir of SARS-CoV-2 in wild animals. In an investigation, researchers at National Veterinary Research ...

As it turned out, however, what they found in the parking lot wasn’t one of the playful, mischievous brown-pelted animals but instead one of their wild distant cousins called a mink.