Mink
Last Review/Updated: May 31, 2002
Mustela vison
The mink is a semi-aquatic weasel. Its diet includes muskrat, fish, ducks and other small birds and rodents. It hunts at night and is seldom seen far from watercourses in the mixedwood, foothill and montane zones.
The mink weighs about 1 kg (2.2 lb.) and is 65-75 cm (25-30 in.) in length. It uses musk to mark its territory; although the musk smells worse than that of a skunk, it cannot be sprayed for defense. Mating generally occurs in March and five to six young are born in May, usually in an abandoned muskrat den.
