But most people do not eat or wear seals, are squeamish about killing cuddly doe-eyed mammals, and do not worry about the inconsistency of such a ban being enforced by a group of nations which kills it own seals for the expediency of fishermen, and kills tens of millions of farmed foxes and minks for their pelts every year.
Other animals seen in the woods include deer, beavers, muskrats, minks, otters, snowshoe hares, red foxes, woodchucks, raccoons, and chipmunks.
Mammals commonly found throughout the state include deer, foxes, raccoons, porcupines, minks, weasels, skunks, muskrats, woodchucks, and squirrels.
Mule deer, brown bears, bighorn sheep, minks, muskrats, foxes, mountain lions, and bobcats live in the mountain and forest areas above 7,000 feet (2,100 metres), while at lower elevations antelopes, coyotes, and jackrabbits are found.
Fur farming, especially of minks and foxes, is economically important as well.
In Europe, American minks released from fur farms contributed to the decline of the native European mink.
Critics also claim the eagles wipe out eider ducks (mink is the culprit, corrects Sexton) and Irish hares (another misconception, says Sexton: hare numbers have fallen partly because of disease).
The Oscar de la Renta flag flew high throughout the show: in the perfectly judged, immaculately cut sleeves ending slightly above the elbow; the chic cut of skirts hemmed just at the knee; the mink sweaters.
You may also see white-tailed deer, moose, mink and even black bears.
In 1955, when a group of Rank stars went to the Venice film festival to publicise British films, Harris designed the notorious "mink" bikini that was worn by Diana Dors in a gondola.
Issued by Domestic – a hub for exploratory, leftfield music housing the likes of Mink Freud and Hektagon – it is the amalgam of cultural detritus and dream sequences from one young man's childhood, projected through a science-fiction approach to electronic music-making.
