experts suggest that the best way anyone can help black-footed ferrets is by ensuring that they have a place to call home. "We can save the black-footed ferret," Marinari told PBS. "Our thought ...

In the early 1900s, the United States was likely home to more than 5 million ferrets ... Currently there are 340 black-footed ferrets in the wild and 301 in captivity. For decades the Center has been ...

Black-footed ferrets are a story of success in conservation ... Eventually, the ferret took to its new home, complete with a hind quarter of fresh prairie dog tossed in the hole behind it as ...

In an outdoor enclosure, two juvenile black-footed ferrets pounce and somersault, tumbling over each other in a playful fight. The loser breaks free and rushes into a tunnel lined with a plastic tube.

Back From the Brink Black-footed ferrets were declared extinct in 1979, victims of disease, loss of their prairie habitat, and the poisoning and shooting of their prey, prairie dogs. A few years ...

The black-footed ferret could also be called the black-eyed ferret because of the distinctive “stick-em up” mask that adorns its face. The tan ferrets also have black markings on their feet ...