Mink numbers drop as the otter bites back

The Independent on Sunday | October 26, 2003| | Copyright

The American mink, one of the countryside's most ruthless killers, has finally met its match. Across Britain, mink numbers are plummeting - thanks to a resurgence in native otter populations.

Research by zoologists at the University of Oxford has found that, for the first time in 40 years, otters are displacing American mink along river banks across the country. In rare cases, otters are even killing mink in direct combat. And the decline is dramatic, with mink numbers falling in the Home Counties by as much as 50 per cent. From a nationwide peak of 110,000 mink in the 1980s, mink numbers ...

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