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They're also going to be competing against wild mink." Reeder says this could have a negative impact on our ecosystem. Any small animals could be at risk.
The results don’t reveal if the brains of feral mink function the same as wild type mink. To find that out, the team would have to examine the brains of animals, which is a step for a future study.
One of those changes is brain size. Domesticated animals have smaller brains than their wild counterparts, a phenomenon so universal that it’s actually called the domestication effect.
A wild mink in Utah was the first wild animal in the U.S. found with COVID-19. Credit: Peter Trimming via Wikipedia, CC BY-SA ...
In December 2020, a wild mink captured near a mink farm in Utah tested positive for a variant of COVID-19 indistinguishable from the virus found in nearby farmed mink.
COVID-19 affected multiple Oregon mink fur farms in 2020 and 2021, and several mink who tested positive for the virus escaped into the wild. “Mink on fur farms incubate diseases such as COVID-19 and ...
Rescued Antioch mink returns to wild by: Amy Larson Posted: Dec 29, 2022 / 05:04 PM PST Updated: Dec 29, 2022 / 05:09 PM PST ...
Cryptic cases The farmed mink in Poland again highlight the risk of spillbacks by suggesting an unknown reservoir of SARS-CoV-2 in wild animals. In an investigation, researchers at National ...
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