Mustelids: Studies and Scientific Findings

• A dog is not a mink is not a goat but they can all benefit from behavioral measures that tell us who they are

• Balancing macronutrient intake in a mammalian carnivore: disentangling the influences of flavor and nutrition

• Additional foraging elements reduce abnormal behaviour – fur-chewing and stereotypic behaviour – in farmed mink 

• Benefits of a Ball and Chain- Simple Environmental Enrichments Improve Welfare and Reproductive Success in Farmed American Mink (Neovison vison)

• Behavioral studies on the use of open water basins by American mink (Neovison vison)

• Assessing the cryptic invasion of a domestic conspecific- American mink in their native range

• Causes of mortality in farmed mink in the Intermountain West, North America

• Effects of access to extra cage constructions including a swimming opportunity on the development of stereotypic behaviour in singly housed juvenile farmed mink (Neovison vison)

• Effects of early weaning and housing conditions on the development of stereotypies in farmed mink 2000

• Effects of experience and cage enrichment on predatory skills of black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes)

• Environmental Enrichment Reduces Signs of Boredom in Caged Mink

• Dive performance in a small-bodied, semi-aquatic mammal in the wild

• Environmental pollutants and alterations in the reproductive system in wild male mink (Neovison vison) from Sweden

• Exposure of non-target small mammals to anticoagulant rodenticide during chemical rodent control operations

• Exposure of stone marten (Martes foina) and polecat (Mustela putorius) to anticoagulant rodenticides- Effects of regulatory restrictions of rodenticide use

• Environmentally enriching American mink (Neovison vison) increases lymphoid organ weight and skeletal symmetry, and reveals differences between two sub-types of stereotypic behaviour.pdf

• Causes of mortality and morbidity in free-ranging mustelids in Switzerland- necropsy data from over 50 years of general health surveillance.pdf

This compilation of studies was made possible by licenced wildlife rehabilitator Peggy Popp: "Scenes From The Wildlife Baby Room”
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