Conservationists have been trying to save North America’s only native ferret for more than four decades. Twice it has been declared extinct. Now, scientists have come up with a pioneering plan to ...

Eleven black-footed ferrets were born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo facility in Virginia, marking a big step in cloning ...

American pioneers saw the endless stretches of grassland of the Great Plains as a place to produce grain and beef for a growing country. But one casualty was the native prairie ecosystem and animals ...

In an outdoor enclosure, two juvenile black-footed ferrets pounce and somersault, tumbling over each other in a playful fight. The loser breaks free and rushes into a tunnel lined with a plastic tube.

Ferrets are beloved, curious creatures whose popularity as a family pet has steadily increased over the past decades. However ...

As I begin another breeding season as a zoo keeper working with the critically endangered Vancouver Island marmots and black-footed ferrets, I wonder if the excitement I feel each spring will start to ...

While it is certainly convenient and cheap to feed your ferret food designed for other species, they do have unique nutritional needs. Here's a list of foods they shouldn't eat. Ferrets are true ...

Ndivhuwo Shivambu works for the Tshwane University of Technology. She receives funding from the Tshwane University of Technology, the Faculty of Sciences and the Department of Nature Conservation. She ...

Some puppies had severe worms and all are receiving veterinary treatment Fourteen puppies have been rescued after they were crammed "like sardines" into a cat carrier and ferret box and dumped in a ...

Fourteen puppies have been rescued after they were crammed "like sardines" into a cat carrier and ferret box and dumped in a field. They were found by a farmer who was working late and heard the sound ...