mink
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There are now approximately 15,000 mink left in Denmark.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
During breeding season—roughly late April through most of August—they nest in underground burrows on offshore islands where mammalian predators such as mink, rats and foxes can’t get at them or their young.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
I have a photo of my mother at the Bowl on a chilly 1940s evening sporting, like other ladies around her in the inexpensive bleachers, her mink stole.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
The project in Kent follows a similar one in east Anglia, where there was a 70% year-on-year reduction in mink numbers, leading to the species' complete removal from Norfolk, Suffolk and East Cambridgeshire.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Inside were furs: a fox jacket, a mink stole, a floor-length ermine coat.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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Amid a worrying Covid variant outbreak among minks -- when Denmark was the largest exporter of their furs -- she ordered the culling of some 17 million minks, an order which was later ruled illegal.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
It’s also been extremely deadly in seals, sea lions and minks.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2024
Domestic rats, color-pointed gerbils, and American minks can also carry the mutation.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 27, 2023
However, there are documented cases of H5N1 spreading in mammalian populations, ranging from minks to sea lions and dolphins, raising concern about human-to-human spread.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2023
Women were wearing minks despite the July heat.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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