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Mother and cub. The cub ran up the tree when it saw me and the mother stayed at the base of the tree watching the cub and me for a minute. Then she ran off in the opposite direction and the cub quickly climbed down and ran after her.

Write up from Flickr when we initially found the animal:

We were driving west on alligator alley this morning with our friend Randy when I caught a quick glance of a roadkill in the middle of the road. I instantly thought it might have been an everglades mink (highly endangered). We kept driving and about 2 miles later we saw an animal running across the highway. We got a really good look at it and I am sure it was a live everglades mink (my second live mink, first was in Fakahatchee).

Randy turned around so we could go check out the roadkill I had seen a few miles back. It turned out to be an everglades mink also! I called Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park biologist Mike Owen to tell him . Mike said we would submit it to the University of Florida under his permit to collect roadkill.

According to Mike there are about 15 mink which have been collected over the past 80 years or so and send to the University.