The Black-Footed Ferrets the most endangered mammals in

North America

By, Kathryn Andrews

Time line• 1851:The first report of a black-footed ferret

was by John James Audubon and there wouldn’t be another sighting in 26 years.

• 1964: Female ferret and kits are found in Mellette County in western South Dakota and were thought to be the last in the world!

• 1967:The black-footed ferrets are put on the endangered species list.

• 1973:The Endangered Species Act is passed.

Threats

• Black-Footed Ferrets face a lot of threats in the wild like diseases and predators. The coyotes, great horned owls, golden eagles, prairie falcons, badgers, bobcats and foxes all eat ferrets. Some of the diseases are called canine distemper, sylvatic plague and rabies.

What they hunt

• Black-Footed Ferrets hunt prairie dogs and other small animals.

Habits

The Black-Footed Ferrets are mostly nocturnal and spend most of their time in prairie dog burrows. They come out of their burrows to hunt, play or to find new burrows. If a female ferret doesn’t come out of her burrow and it is after mating season she is probably had a litter of kits.

Adopt a Black-Footed FerretAdopt a Black-Footed Ferret program is to

give money to a service to help ferrets survive. You chose between four ferrets and when you chose one or how many you want to chose you push adopt now. When it gets to the people that run the show they send you some stuff in the mail. Also you don’t really get a Black-Footed Ferret it’s illegal to own one.

Save the ferrets!!!!!!!!!!

Black-Footed Ferrets are fun, energetic animals and disserve to have more protection of their habitat! We need to be more careful of what we do and try to keep our environment clean! If you care about animals then you will do what’s right and keep our world clean!!!!

Black-Footed Ferrets

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