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	Nebraska Game and Parks Commission - Wildlife Species Guide - Black-footed Ferret
		The closest relative of the black-footed ferret is the Siberian polecat that occurs throughout eastern Asia.
		The range of the black-footed ferret coincides closely with that of three species of prairie dogs on which the ferret depends for food and habitat.
		As with most predators, black-footed ferrets are opportunistic in their feeding behavior.
	www.ngpc.state.ne.us /wildlife/ferret.asp (2658 words)

	Black-Footed Ferret
		The black-footed ferret was reintroduced into Badlands National Park, SD, in 1994.
		The black-footed ferret was once found throughout the eastern and southern Rockies and the Great Plains.
		Today, captive-bred ferrets have been reintroduced to the Shirley Basin in Wyoming; UL Bend National Wildlife Refuge in Montana; the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana; the Badlands National Park in South Dakota; Buffalo Gap National Grasslands in South Dakota and Aubrey Valley in Arizona.
	www.npca.org /wildlife_protection/wildlife_facts/ferret.asp (270 words)

	Animal Info - Black-footed Ferret
		The black-footed ferret is solitary, except during the breeding season, and males apparently do not help to rear the young.
		Ferret kits that are destined for release in the wild receive "preconditioning": extended exposure to outdoor pens that have naturalistic prairie dog burrows, and in which developing kits are exposed to prairie dog prey.
		A ferret may eat over 100 prairie dogs in one year, and scientists calculate that over 250 prairie dogs are needed to support one ferret family for one year.
	www.animalinfo.org /species/carnivor/mustnigr.htm (1966 words)

	Black-footed Ferret - Bagheera
		After the black-footed ferret population was decimated by disease, biologists determined that the remaining wild ferrets were not a viable breeding population.
		The black-footed ferret is a nocturnal prowler whose fate is closely tied to that of the prairie dog.
		The last 12 ferrets were captured and combined with 6 ferrets already in captivity to bring the world total to 18 ferrets, all in captivity, in 1987.
	bagheera.com /inthewild/van_anim_ferret.htm (746 words)

	Black-footed Ferret - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Black-footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes) is a small carnivorous North American mammal closely related to the Steppe Polecat of Russia, and a member of the diverse family Mustelidae which also includes weasels, mink, polecats, martens, otters, and badgers.
		Biologists hope to have 1500 Black-footed Ferrets established in the wild by the year 2010, with at least 30 breeding adults in each population.
		A single family of four Black-footed Ferrets eats about 250 prairie dogs each year and cannot survive without access to large colonies of them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black-footed_Ferret (659 words)

	Black-Footed Ferret
		Ferrets are nocturnal, sleeping up to 21 hours per day and hunting prairie dogs primarily during the night.
		The demise of the ferret and other prairie species is a reminder that the prairie ecosystem itself may be threatened.
		When their numbers declined drastically due to an outbreak of canine distemper, a fatal disease for ferrets, the remaining 18 animals were taken into captivity in an effort to increase their numbers through captive breeding.
	www.northern.edu /natsource/ENDANG1/Bfferr1.htm (999 words)

	Black-footed ferret - Mustela nigripes: More Information - ARKive
		The black-footed ferret was thought to be extinct in the 1970s until a last population was discovered in Meeteetse, Wyoming in 1981 (5).
		One of the world's rarest mammals, the black-footed ferret is the only ferret native to North America (5), and is classified as Extinct in the Wild (1).
		A very large area of suitable habitat with a large population of prairie dogs is required to support the species; a single black-footed ferret needs between 40 and 60 hectares (3).
	www.arkive.org /species/GES/mammals/Mustela_nigripes/more_info.html (757 words)

	The Black-footed Ferret
		Because if their appearance, the black-footed ferret is often known as the "Bandid of the Prairie." The ferret travels on the open plain by graceful leaps across the ground.
		The Black-footed Ferret has endured a plight during the latter half of this century, and to this day it is still the rarest mammal in North America.
		Historically, the black-footed ferret ranged throughout the Great Plains from Texas to southern Saskatchewan living in prairie dog burrows, but now, because of loss of habitat and food source, the black-footed ferret is no longer found in Texas or Canada.
	explore.tpwd.state.tx.us /gulf/sbranch/ferret.htm (844 words)

	Black-Footed Ferret Recovery
		Black-footed ferrets, the "masked bandits" of the prairie grasslands, continue down a perilous road toward survival.
		To salvage this last known population, all remaining ferrets in the Meeteetse population were captured and moved in 1987 to captive breeding facilities at the Wyoming Game and Fish Department's Sybille Research Facility.
		And it's yet to be determined if ferrets released in Montana and South Dakota in 1994 have reproduced, though approximately 25 percent of the animals are believed to be alive.
	www.r6.fws.gov /feature/ferrets.html (702 words)

	Saving the Black-Footed Ferret
		And the ferret is on the verge of extinction.
		Ferrets birthed and raised in natural conditions at a special facility in Pueblo, Colorado--a facility where ferrets are able to feed, burrow, mate and nest in enclosed portions of an active prairie dog colony (1995b).
		Amidst the intra-agency squabbles and private-public disputes, the ferret has become both a hostage and a victim of institutional, bureaucratic, and political forces--forces which, in an ecological sense, may be as determinant of the ferret's fate as the biological hurdles of genetics, predators, and disease.
	www.ti.org /bffhess.html (21089 words)

	Black-footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes) Recovery Update
		In 1998, the number of black-footed ferrets (ferrets; Mustela nigripes) produced from Species Survival Plan (SSP) captive breeding facilities (six zoos and one government breeding center) far surpassed all previous years with a total of 425 born and 321 ferret kits surviving to weaning.
		Given the number of ferrets that persisted from previous reintroductions, the number of kits produced in the wild, and the number of ferrets released in 1998, it is likely that more ferrets will exist in the wild during the fall of 1998 than are in captivityóan important program milestone.
		Ferrets are also being provided to two new field breeding projects: Seven kits (4.3) will be transferred to a New Mexico breeding facility constructed by the Turner Endangered Species Fund; and 10 kits (5.5) will be sent to a breeding project on an experimental reintroduction area in northwestern Colorado and eastern Utah.
	www.umich.edu /~esupdate/library/98.11-12/lockhart.html (901 words)

	Black-Footed Ferret (Endangered Species), Wildlife Species Information: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
		National goals to receiver the species are to establish 10 free-ranging populations of black-footed ferrets, spread over the widest possible area without their former range.
		During the fall of 1986 and the spring of 1987 the last known wild black-footed ferrets were taken from the wild and placed in captive breeding facilities.
		In addition to the Ferret Conservation Center colony, breeding populations have been established at the National Zoo's Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, Virginia; the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska; the Cheyenne Mountain Zoological Park in Colorado Springs, Colorado; the Phoenix Zoo in Phoenix, Arizona; and the Louisville Zoological Garden in Louisville, Kentucky.
	www.fws.gov /species/species_accounts/bio_ferr.html (1303 words)

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		Loss of habitat is the primary reason black-footed ferrets remain near the brink of extinction.
		The ferret's large ears and eyes suggest it has acute hearing and sight, but smell is probably its most important sense for hunting prey underground in the dark.
		It is a slender, wiry animal with a black face mask, black feet, and a black-tipped tail.
	www.blackfootedferret.org /facts.html (374 words)

	Black-footed Ferret
		In Arizona, black-footed ferrets were recorded within the range of the Gunnison's prairie dog with the last verified ferret being collected near Government Prairie in November 1931.
		The decline of the ferret is related to habitat destruction caused by prairie dog control programs, which were initiated at the turn of the century.
		A secondary goal is to manage ferrets and their habitat in a manner that will not negatively impact the lifestyles and economy of local residents.
	www.gf.state.az.us /w_c/blackfooted_ferret.shtml (617 words)

	North America - National Zoo FONZ
		Watching black-footed ferrets: You are viewing the nest box of a black-footed ferret at the Zoo's Conservation and Research Center, where ferrets are bred to be saved from extinction.
		Unfortunately, many of them—like the black-footed ferret, its prairie dog prey, and their grassland habitat—are highly endangered.
		Ferrets, which once ranged across the Great Plains, are more active at night, so don't be surprised if the ferret on camera is asleep.
	nationalzoo.si.edu /Animals/NorthAmerica (406 words)

	Recovery of the Endangered Black-Footed Ferret - National Zoo FONZ
		The National Zoo's Black-Footed Ferret Reproduction Project studies the biology of the black-footed ferret to enhance reproduction, maintain genetic diversity, and provide animals for reintroduction to the western Great Plains.
		The black-footed ferret breeding program depends on computerized matchmaking, ensuring that the most genetically appropriate individuals are mated together.
		Ferrets born and conditioned at CRC have been released in Wyoming, Arizona, Utah, South Dakota, Montana, and Mexico.
	nationalzoo.si.edu /ConservationAndScience/ReproductiveScience/RecoverBFFerret/default.cfm (707 words)

	Black-footed Ferret Recovery Program Page
		Once all the facilities that breed black-footed ferrets are done with their season for the year, the allocation is made as to which ones are release candidates and which have more valuable genes that stay in the SSP to breed next year.
		According to Dr. Garelle, one of the biggest challenges to establishing viable populations of black-footed ferrets in the wild is the lack of enough large and healthy prairie dog colonies.
		Black-footed ferrets came to the very brink of extinction in the early 1980s, (a total founding population of only seven animals), primarily due to human extermination of their main prey base — prairie dogs.
	www.cmzoo.org /bff.html (1980 words)

	Spotlight on Wildlife - Black-footed Ferret
		The Black-footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes), although still so closely related to Mustela eversmanni that some authorities consider it an isolated population of that same animal, made itself at home in North America.
		The ferrets' arrival on the scene, with a body plan seemingly made to exploit prairie dogs and their burrows, was just the luck of the evolutionary draw!
		Nevertheless, toughened by having to contend with badgers, coyotes, eagles and many other predators, even with ferrets in town,prairie dogs continued to thrive; some of their colonies were the size of our smaller eastern states.
	www.edu-source.com /spotlight/bfferett.html (1076 words)

	Black Footed Ferret: WhoZoo
		Black-footed ferrets frequently live in abandoned prairie dog burrows, and they are the only ferret native to North America.
		The black-footed ferret is a nocturnal creature, and is therefore rarely seen.
		The large skull of the ferret, along with strong jaws and teeth, are adapted for eating meat.
	www.whozoo.org /Anlife2002/hollyell/HE_BlackfootedFerret2.htm (553 words)

	Black Footed Ferret
		It now survives in a few places in the western United States where ranchers are compensated for not molesting prairie dog towns and where management programs for the prairie dog and the ferret are being developed.
		Wide-scale poisoning programs to eradicate prairie dogs and the destruction of grassland habitat also killed off the ferret.
		An animal of North America’s arid, shortgrass prairies, it lived primarily with, and on, prairie dogs.
	www.nature.ca /notebooks/english/blkfoot.htm (94 words)

	UNEP-WCMC - Black Footed Ferret
		CURRENT POPULATION The Black-footed Ferret became extinct in the wild with the loss of the last known wild population in 1981.
		In the 1800s, the Ferret was widely distributed at low densities in ten states: Montana, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and northern Texas (Crane, 1990).
		As ferrets live at low densities, a breeding population is spread over a large area.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /species/data/species_sheets/ferret.htm (715 words)

	Endangered Species: Black-footed ferret
		The Black-footed ferret's biggest threat is man.Since humans started moving toward the prairie for more land, the number of prairie dog colonies has decreased by 98%, because humans kill the ferrets inside.
		Until I researched this ferret, the only experience I have had with a ferret was when I was at my friend Jeremy's house and found a small ferret in a cage in his basement, but that was a tame ferret.
		I thought it might be a brownish color to blend in with the prairie floor, which it is. Once I saw the animal, I knew it had to be related to the weasel family because of its body structure and pionted snout.
	neyture.info /teachered/endanger/reports/mammals/ferret/ferret.html (1049 words)

	Footed - white-footed ant - Technomyrmex albipes
		The Black-footed Ferret usually lives in prairie dog towns, where it sometimes sits upright looking for a burrow to raid.
		The black-footed ferret, prairie dog, and North American bison formed three Presumably, the black-footed ferret also benefited, and its numbers at this
		The goal of the Black-footed Ferret Recovery Plan is to establish 10 or more widely separated, You can see live black-footed ferret at these exhibits:
	linksseek.com /lksk/footed.html (423 words)

	Black-Footed Ferret - MSN Encarta
		Black-Footed Ferret, slim, short-legged mammal native to the short-grass prairies of western North America (see Ferret).
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	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761596146/Black-Footed_Ferret.html (34 words)

	Black Footed Ferret Conservation Program
		The black-footed ferret is one of the most endangered mammals in North America.
		Come inside our Website and learn about efforts to save this rare and fascinating animal of the prairie.
	www.blackfootedferret.org (31 words)

	BCTF - Steering Committee 2005-2007
		His Black-footed Ferret Recovery Program Analysis and Action Plan, which was funded by a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, was used to revise the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Recovery Plan.
		Dr. Hutchins is an experienced conservation planner, meeting facilitator, and coalition builder, organizing major planning efforts for the black-footed ferret, Micronesian kingfisher and Karner blue butterfly recovery programs and on the future of elephants in North American zoos.
		He has traveled to six continents and 33 countries worldwide to pursue his interest in wildlife and nature conservation.
	www.bushmeat.org /steering.html (5734 words)

	BLACK-FOOTED FERRET REPRODUCTION BREAKS ALL RECORDS
		The black-footed ferret, a long, slender-bodied, black-masked mammal similar in size to a mink, was thought to be extinct until a ranch dog killed one near Meeteetse, Wyoming, in 1981, leading to the discovery of a small nearby population.
		The largest contribution of ferrets born in captivity came from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center near Laramie, Wyoming, where 249 kits were born and 191 survive to date.
		All ferret kits reintroduced into the wild in 1998 will be preconditioned, a process of extended exposure to large outdoor pens that have prairie dog burrows and live prairie dog prey.
	www.r6.fws.gov /pressrel/98-39.htm (670 words)

	MANUSCRIPT AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS RECORDS
		concerning research on black-footed ferrets and release of
		footed ferret in Colorado (with handwritten notation on
		Ferret sighting in North Dakota (report is attached); letter from
	www.nps.gov /yell/technical/archives/arch_a16.htm (9441 words)

	The Ferret Owner Manual
		The domestic ferret is a separate species from its wild cousins; the weasel, mink, and its more distant cousin, the native American Black-Footed Ferret.
		Another possibility is your ferret trying to drag the infant to his "den" to "protect it." Regardless of the reason, the result is an injured child and another story to add to the myth of the ferret as a vicious attacker of infants and children.
		One possible approach to the ferret’s having his toy and not eating it too, is to put the toy in an old sock and tying a knot in the end of the sock to keep the toy in where it can’t be eaten.
	www.thechipster.com /fert-man.html (15480 words)

	Records for Ferret. (in MARION)
		Black-footed ferret / Denise Casey ; photographs by Tim W. Clark.
		Ferret facts and fancies; a book of practical instructions on breeding, raising, handling and selling; also, their uses and fur value.
		Roberts, Mervin F. All about ferrets / Mervin F. Roberts.
	js-catalog.cpl.org /MARION/@FERRET/febb90003000/0 (154 words)

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