mink

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

Conservationists say mink have a devastating impact on other wildlife, with the water vole, the UK's fastest-declining mammal, their main targets.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

But she faced a barrage of criticism over her handling of the "mink crisis" in November 2020.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

It has led to the deaths of more than 400 million poultry worldwide and has infected dairy cows, mink, foxes, bears, otters, and many other mammals and wild birds.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 12, 2026

Small mammals domesticated as recently as the 19th and 20th centuries include foxes, mink, and chinchillas grown for fur and hamsters kept as pets.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

Her beaux turned to me for consolation, and I gave them the same advice I have for you: Think no more of the minks, because she has already forgotten you.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine