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Mink or swim

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If you want to make mink happy, let them go swimming.

If the economics of consumer preferences were different, Georgia Mason wouldn't be studying mink. Now, ironically, Mason, from the University of Oxford, and her colleagues have used economic measures of consumer preference to find out what it takes to make fur-farmed mink content. The answer? A paddling pool1.

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  1. Mason,G. J.,Cooper, J. & Clarebrough, C. Frustrations of fur-farmed mink. Nature 410,35- 36 2001.

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