So happy for the black-footed ferret today! One of my favorite animals. <3 A cloned individual na
So happy for the black-footed ferret today! One of my favorite animals. <3 A cloned individual named Elizabeth Ann will eventually be able to add to a gene pool that’s been bottlenecked for almost half a century. The black-footed ferret is the only wild ferret and makes its home in the western United States (Utah/Arizona/etc) They are severely endangered and have had populations decimated in the past because they’re susceptible to diseases like canine distemper. Much of their range was eliminated by farmland and they were killed as farmers poisoned the ferrets’ main food source, prairie dogs. Currently there are only about 350 black-footed ferrets in the wild. -- source link
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