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Old 25-10-2005, 02:29 PM
henrya henrya is offline
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Re: wildlife imports

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Mink mainly released by Animal Liberationists
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Mink were well established in Britain long before the Animal Liberationists thought of releasing them. They escaped from fur farms, or were released from fur farms that went bust.

There is a long list of animals - the mammals include:

Rabbit
House Mouse
Black Rat (not many left)
Brown Rat
Edible Dormouse
Ferret
Domestic Cat
Muntjac
Sika
Fallow Deer
Chinese Water Deer
Wild Goat
Wild Boar

all seem to be established in the wild, and there are other one-off escapes and short term colonists incompletely documented.

henrya
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