Both minks and otters are mustelids, a family of carnivores that also includes badgers, weasels, and wolverines.
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Kassia Bonesteel,
CBS News,
1 July 2026
Over the next several decades, a roll call of Pennsylvania’s native animals would be extirpated, including mountain lions, wolves, wolverines, badgers, pine marten, and fisher cats; whitetail deer were nearly wiped out of the state, as were black bears and turkeys.
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