Today, a major recovery effort is underway. The ferrets, which have been described as wiry, weasel-like and cute, once ranged throughout the North American Great Plains wherever they could find ...
Sibert and Red Cloud, black-footed ferret siblings at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, are the first members of an endangered species born to a cloned animal.
Students tried to release cute and seemingly harmless creatures ... Parks and Wildlife’s recovery program for the black-footed ferret, one of the most endangered mammals in North America ...