The value of wildlife has been widely ignored or under-rated in the past by the international
community. At most, wildlife was considered from the limited aesthetic and touristic aspects …

The American mink has spread widely beyond its native North America due to the activities
of fur traders. The mink is an extremely adaptable, generalist predator. Over two continents …

The absences of large carnivores from many ecosystems, human‐induced landscape
changes, and resource supplementation have been theorized to increase the abundance of …

Body sizes of European mink (Mustela lutreola L.), polecat (M. putorius L.) and American
mink (M. vison Schreber) were studied over a 10-year period in an area of north-eastern …

The studies were financially supported by several bodies. The Institute of Zoology of the
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus supported the entire study between 1986-1993 …

During a period in the 1980s when both European mink Mustela lutreola and American mink
M. vison were present in Estonia, their food was significantly different. European mink ate a …

Personality exists in non-human animals and can impact fitness. There is, however, a
shortage of empirical studies in certain areas within the field, and fundamental evolutionary …

Competition is considered to be a major evolutionary driving force within assemblages of
related and morphologically similar species, but it is notoriously difficult to test and quantify …

Interspecific interactions between sympatric carnivores have important implications for intra-
guild competition, epidemiology (here especially in the context of rabies and bovine …

The species occasionally hybridizes with Mustela putorius (Tumanov and Abramov 2002,
Ternovsky 1977, Davidson et al. 2000, Cabria et al. 2011). Both hybridization and genetic …