This animal's long slender body, like that of a weasel, enables it to crawl in and out of the holes and dwellings of its primary prey—the prairie dog. Though black-footed ferrets sometimes eat ...

black-footed ferrets are formidable predators for their size and have the biggest teeth in relation to their body of any carnivore. Whereas you might feed a domesticated ferret small mice ...

Presently, ferrets survive at 14 of those sites. Currently there are 340 black-footed ferrets in the wild and 301 in captivity. For decades the Center has been defending this species from threats like ...

LARIMER COUNTY, Colo. — The black-footed ferret may be short of stature, but they stand tall in the history books – they were the first North American endangered species to be cloned in 2020.

Wild black-footed ferret wearing a novel tracking collar peers out of a prairie dog burrow. Roshan Patel, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.

Wildlife biologists are sharing "a lot of good news coming out of ferret world" in the fight to save North America's critically endangered black-footed ferret. In Pueblo County, there's evidence of at ...

A cloned black-footed ferret gave birth to two kits in June 2024. This is the first time a cloned animal from an endangered species has successfully reproduced. Researchers hope they can breed ...

The black-footed ferret could be coming back to New Mexico. The animal is the country's only native ferret species and historically lived in parts of the southwest including New Mexico and Arizona.

Small and slender, the black-footed ferret was once abundant in Canada’s grasslands until the agricultural boom in the early 1900s. By 1974, this ferret was thought to be extinct until a tiny ...