Otter and mink are semi-aquatic mammals that resemble one another in quite a few ways. In fact, they are so similar that people often mistake them for one another when seen in the wild.

In Europe, recent studies have also shown that the presence of otters corresponds with a reduced incidence of mink appearances. If the mechanisms behind the minks’ disappearance are clear ...

He says otters vanished from South Dakota more than 100 years ago but were reintroduced a few decades ago near Flandreau. “People trapping mink all of a sudden would accidentally catch a river ...

Sometimes its broad, flat tail will be visible. Often, however, its tail is underwater, and then it can be hard to tell it from other animals such as mink or otter except by its size. If a swimming ...

Mink, with their razor-sharp teeth and claws, are among the most fearless and devastating small predators around. Larger than a grey squirrel but smaller than an otter, they have voracious ...

BBC Wildlife magazine reported in 2000 an astonishingly high decline' in mink populations in the preceding seven years due to the flourishing of otters. There is evidence,' the magazine reported ...

The four-day Independence Hunt, a firearm deer hunt on private lands or public lands that require an access permit, begins on ...

Jonah Tosney, senior project manager at Norfolk Rivers Trust, said the Trimingham fish attack could have been done by an otter or mink. Dr Tosney said: 'Otters are quite capable predators and a ...

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But we think it could either be a mink or there could be an otter down there.” The group are now hoping signs can be erected to warn drivers and other visitors to the area about the birds.

As well as mink, rats will kill voles for their burrows and we have also had reports of men with terriers hunting them." Sightings of otters have also increased. Last November, a man spotted an ...

Wild Things columnist Eric Brown learns of anti-mink measures introduced at a Bexley nature reserve and recounts his own worrying encounter with ...