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mink

[mingk] / mɪŋk /


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Regular surveys have shown they are breeding and thriving with no sign of American mink along the waterway.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

Jacobs fished out the long mink her grandmother left her years ago and took it to a Manhattan furrier to give it a second act.

From Barron's Apr. 24, 2026

In 2020, it ordered the culling of all roughly 17 million farm-raised mink in Denmark to stop the spread of a coronavirus mutation, a directive it later admitted had no legal grounds.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 19, 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

Inside were furs: a fox jacket, a mink stole, a floor-length ermine coat.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

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

"It's a super rare mutation," says Stankowich, who has studied mustelids, a group that includes badgers, minks, and weasels.

From National Geographic Feb. 12, 2024

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

The chickadees sang alone, not in a winter group, and the skunks and minks and foxes found food more abundant in the forest than at my tree house.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George




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