The students from Lamar Middle School were invited to release the creatures on a private landowner’s property as part of the ...
Photo: Courtesy of Adrienne Crosier, Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute Catch up quick: Antonia is ...
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.
Subject Specialist The journalist and/or newsroom have/has a deep knowledge of the topic, location or community group covered in this article. A black-footed ferret cloned from DNA of a ferret that ...
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 ...
Antonia, a cloned black-footed ferret at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, has produced two healthy offspring that will help build genetic diversity in their ...