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 ...

It’s almost impossible to imagine that a creature could vanish from the wild and then, decades later, make a dramatic ...

The black-footed ferret is one of North America’s most endangered animals and has been since 1972. In fact, it got so bad ...

In the early 1900s, the United States was likely home to more than 5 million ferrets ... Presently, ferrets survive at 14 of those sites. Currently there are 340 black-footed ferrets in the wild and ...

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 ...