Though black-footed ferrets sometimes eat squirrels, mice, and other rodents, prairie dogs are essential to their survival, making up the majority of the ferret diet. These voracious predators ...

Presently, ferrets survive at 14 of those sites. Currently there are 340 black-footed ferrets in the wild and 301 in captivity. For decades the Center has been defending this species from threats like ...

Elizabeth Ann is about two months old and was cloned from 33-year old DNA US scientists have successfully cloned a highly-endangered black-footed ferret using DNA from an identical animal that has ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife released endangered black-footed ferrets into the wild. The release happened last week at May Ranch with some help from students from Lamar Middle School. Black-footed ...

ferrets can eat up to 100 prairie dogs in a year, and are also important prey for raptors, burrowing owls, kit foxes, badgers and coyotes. Wildlife biologists have released ferrets in six sites across ...

Wildlife conservationists are celebrating a big milestone reached by a little black-footed ferret and her offspring, born at ...

Wildlife biologists are sharing "a lot of good news coming out of ferret world" in the fight to save North America's critically endangered black-footed ferret. In Pueblo County, there's evidence of at ...

Wildlife biologists are sharing "a lot of good news coming out of ferret world" in the fight to save North America's critically endangered black-footed ferret. In Pueblo County, there's evidence ...

Black-footed ferrets have been reintroduced to the Arizona landscape for the first time in almost 30 years, according to the Arizona Game and Fish Department. In collaboration with the United ...