Peeping out to take a look at her surroundings is Dink the mink, a new resident at Wildwood park at Herne Common.

She is living in the refurbished enclosure that had been the home for mink Zed who died of old age last year.

The enclosure has had two new ponds and has been completed for some weeks waiting for the new inhabitants.

Trapped from the wild, Dink was introduced to her new home and after getting a full health check by our vet.

"She is very confident," said keeper Cali Bebbington. "Considering she was in the wild only days ago she has made herself right at home."

Though on her own at the moment Dink will be joined shortly by a male and they will both be part of a research project to test monitoring equipment so that scientists can better understand what mink are doing in the wild.

Mink is one of the major causes of the fall in water vole populations since it escaped in to the British countryside.

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