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adult minkFebruary to April3 - 8.5 mink per square km of good habitat Order Carnivorafurcooing, screams, hisses minkden under the roots of trees, along stream banks, occasionally in beaver or muskrat lodgesmost of Canada south of the treeline except Newfoundland, Anticosti Island and the Queen Charlotte IslandsMustela vison0.79-2.31 kgmeadow voles, muskrats, shrews, cottontail rabbits, fish, frogs, salamanders, crayfish, insects, birds, earthworms  420-620 mmsmall earsvison d'Amérique bold, ferocious and untamableall winterbrown to almost black, paler on the belly great horned owls, bobcats, red foxes, coyotes, wolves, black bearsFamily Mustelidae
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adult female minkFebruary to April3 - 8.5 mink per square km of good habitatone litter per yearOrder Carnivorafurcooing, screams, hisses1 yearfemale mammalden under the roots of trees, along stream banks, occasionally in beaver or muskrat lodgesmost of Canada south of the treeline except Newfoundland, Anticosti Island and the Queen Charlotte IslandsMustela vison0.79-1.2 kgmeadow voles, muskrats, shrews, cottontail rabbits, fish, frogs, salamanders, crayfish, insects, birds, earthwormsApril or May50 days420-597 mm3 pairs of mammaevison d'Amérique7.6-20 hectaresbold, ferocious and untamableall winterbrown to almost black, paler on the bellybabiesgreat horned owls, bobcats, red foxes, coyotes, wolves, black bearsFamily Mustelidae

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