Prairie Wildlife Research Blog
The Fascinating World of Black-Footed Ferrets
Discover one of North America’s rarest mammals and the efforts to bring them back from the brink. A Species Once Thought Extinct Black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes) were once believed to be extinct, until a small population was rediscovered in Wyoming in 1981. This sparked intense conservation efforts that continue to this day. Why Black-Footed Ferrets…
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