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The diet of mink varies with the season. During the summer they eat crayfish and small frogs, along with small mammals such as shrews, rabbits, mice, and muskrats. Fish, ducks and other water fowl provide additional food choices. In the winter, they mostly prey on mammals.
Similarly one may ask, are minks dangerous?
Mink, like many fur-bearing animals, harbor bacterial and parasitic diseases not normally dangerous to humans.
Similarly, is a mink a rodent?
Mink are dark-colored, semiaquatic, carnivorous mammals of the genera Neovison and Mustela, and part of the family Mustelidae which also includes weasels, otters and ferrets. The extinct sea mink is related to the American mink, but was much larger.
The American mink is a furry animal with dark brown to black fur and a long tail with a slender body and short, stubby legs. American minks mate in the spring. They breed once a year and have litters of two to ten young.