https://padlet.com/amyh5/a4mv3q7nosnk Black footed ferret en-us 2017-03-15 08:57:14 UTC 2026-03-17 16:49:12 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/amyh5/a4mv3q7nosnk/wish/160205576 Habitat loss and non-native disease threaten the recovery of the black-footed ferret. The ferret is entirely dependent on the presence of prairie dogs and their colonies for food, shelter and raising young. ]]> 2017-03-15 10:49:37 UTC https://padlet.com/amyh5/a4mv3q7nosnk/wish/160205576 https://padlet.com/amyh5/a4mv3q7nosnk/wish/160206266 WWF and partners maintain existing ferret sites, establish new reintroduction sites by relocating prairie dogs to increase ferret habitat, mitigate sylvatic plague on prairie dog colonies and participate in oral vaccine research to better protect prairie dogs from sylvatic plague.]]> 2017-03-15 10:52:11 UTC https://padlet.com/amyh5/a4mv3q7nosnk/wish/160206266 https://padlet.com/amyh5/a4mv3q7nosnk/wish/160206454 Black-footed ferrets were first reintroduced on the Reservation in 1997, but an outbreak of sylvatic plague swept through the release sites in 1999 and decimated populations of ferrets and prairie dogs, the ferret’s main food item. ]]> 2017-03-15 10:53:20 UTC https://padlet.com/amyh5/a4mv3q7nosnk/wish/160206454 https://padlet.com/amyh5/a4mv3q7nosnk/wish/160206634 https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/black-footed-ferret
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https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/black-footed-ferret]]> 2017-03-15 10:54:29 UTC https://padlet.com/amyh5/a4mv3q7nosnk/wish/160206634 https://padlet.com/amyh5/a4mv3q7nosnk/wish/160206713 The black footed ferret nearly went extinct in 1987 due to farmers and ranch owners killing prairie dogs because they were ruining their fields.]]> 2017-03-15 10:54:57 UTC https://padlet.com/amyh5/a4mv3q7nosnk/wish/160206713 https://padlet.com/amyh5/a4mv3q7nosnk/wish/160206999 In 1987, 18 animals were captured in the wild to begin a captive breeding program. In 1988, the Smithsonian's National Zoo was the first to receive offspring from those 18 indivals ]]> 2017-03-15 10:56:29 UTC https://padlet.com/amyh5/a4mv3q7nosnk/wish/160206999 https://padlet.com/amyh5/a4mv3q7nosnk/wish/160207022 2017-03-15 10:56:37 UTC https://padlet.com/amyh5/a4mv3q7nosnk/wish/160207022 https://padlet.com/amyh5/a4mv3q7nosnk/wish/160209195 2017-03-15 11:07:18 UTC https://padlet.com/amyh5/a4mv3q7nosnk/wish/160209195 https://padlet.com/amyh5/a4mv3q7nosnk/wish/160212372 Breeding activity generally occurs in March and April; after a gestation period of 41 to 43 days, a litter of kits is born. The average litter size is three to four young, but single kits, as well as litters of nine or ten, have been recorded. Only the female cares for the young. 
Kits are about three-quarters grown by July when they first venture above ground. Long after they stop nursing, they depend on their mother for meals of meat. By late summer, the female leaves her kits in separate burrows during the day and gathers them together at night to hunt. Eventually, the young begin to hunt alone, and by September are usually independent and solitary. Ferrets become sexually mature at 1 year of age, and their peak reproductive period is at about 3 to 4 years.]]> 2017-03-15 11:24:14 UTC https://padlet.com/amyh5/a4mv3q7nosnk/wish/160212372 https://padlet.com/amyh5/a4mv3q7nosnk/wish/160213648 in 2011 More than 1,000 black-footed ferrets are thought to be in the wild today, with an additional 280 in breeding facilities.]]> 2017-03-15 11:30:12 UTC https://padlet.com/amyh5/a4mv3q7nosnk/wish/160213648