Black-footed ferret - Wikipedia
Molecular evidence indicates that the steppe polecat and black-footed ferret diverged from M. stromeri between 500,000 and 2,000,000 years ago, perhaps in Beringia. The species …
Black-footed Ferret - The Nature Conservancy
2018年9月10日 · For millennia, black-footed ferrets inhabited a vast swath of North America that spread from Saskatchewan in Canada down into the Mexican state of Chihuahua. They are …
Ferret - Wikipedia
The ferret is most likely a domesticated form of the wild European polecat (Mustela putorius), as evidenced by the ferret's ability to interbreed with European polecats and produce hybrid …
Wild Ferrets: Are they living in the wild? - Ferret World
What do people mean when they say “wild ferret”? The only place claiming to boast “wild ferrets” is New Zealand, but these ferrets are actually hybrids, an animal created by crossbreeding the …
Black-footed ferret - Smithsonian's National Zoo
Black-footed ferrets' color and markings blend well with grassland soils and plants, making them well adapted to their prairie environment. They are slender, wiry animals with a black …
Black-footed Ferret - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
The black-footed ferret, Mustela nigripes, is a medium-sized carnivore in the mustelid family, a group of carnivorous mammals that includes weasels, badgers, martens, mink and otters, …
Black-footed Ferret | Species | WWF - World Wildlife Fund
Black-footed ferrets are one of the most endangered mammals in North America and are the only ferret species native to the continent. Their recovery in the wild signifies the health of the …
Black-footed Ferret: Rebounding in the Badlands - U.S.
2020年11月10日 · Black-footed Ferrets live in prairie dog towns, living in abandoned burrows. Beginning with Wyoming in 1991, Black-Footed Ferrets have been reintroduced to 29 sites …
Black-Footed Ferrets: Top Milestones for a Species Once …
2021年9月24日 · Black-footed ferrets, North America’s only native ferret species, were thought to have gone extinct in 1979. On Sept. 26, 1981, a black-footed ferret was discovered on the …
Black-Footed Ferret | National Geographic
Find out why the black-footed ferret teeters on the brink of extinction. Burrow deeper into this mask-bandit's “business.”