| adult mink | can swim |  |
| eats meadow voles, muskrats, shrews, cottontail rabbits, fish, frogs, salamanders, crayfish, insects, birds, earthworms | |
| has breeding season February to April | |
| has colour brown to almost black, paler on the belly | |
| has length 420-620 mm | |
| has temperament bold, ferocious and untamable | |
| has part anal glands which emit a strong, musky odour | |
| has part long neck | |
| has part long, thin body | |
| has part pointed face | |
| has part short legs | |
| has part small ears | |
| is active all winter | |
| is nocturnal | |
| is solitary | |
| is a kind of mink | |
| makes sound cooing, screams, hisses | |
| weighs 0.79-2.31 kg | |
| mink | has distribution most of Canada south of the treeline except Newfoundland, Anticosti Island and the Queen Charlotte Islands | |
| has name in French vison d'Amérique | |
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| has population density 3 - 8.5 mink per square km of good habitat | |
| has scientific name Mustela vison | |
| is trapped for fur | |
| is eaten by great horned owls, bobcats, red foxes, coyotes, wolves, black bears | |
| lives in den under the roots of trees, along stream banks, occasionally in beaver or muskrat lodges | |
| weasel | has Family name Family Mustelidae | |
| carnivore | has Order name Order Carnivora | |
| is carnivorous or omnivorous | |
| mammal | is warm-blooded | |
| may catch rabies | |
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