[OilIsMastery]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070809/sc_ ... _return_dc

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')ASHINGTON (Reuters) - The black-footed ferret, once the rarest mammal in the world, has made an astonishing comeback in Wyoming after a captive breeding program, researchers said on Thursday.

An estimated 223 of the weasel-like animals are busy hunting prairie dogs in the Shirley Basin area, the researchers report in this week's issue of the journal Science.

[Ferretlover]

lolol

Actually, there has been a breeding program (very complicated) in VA for a number of years.
Prairie dogs are their main food choice (where we lived in KS there were whole colonies of prairie dogs along the roads in and around town. Every time we'd come back from the vet with one of our ferrets, we'd hold our fuzzkid up to the window and say, "Look! Lunch!!"), and most of the black foots were killed when the farmers and ranchers poisoned the millions of prairie dogs (mostly because their horses and cattle would break their legs by stepping into the holes).
Black foot ferrets and domesticated ferrets are cousins, as are the weasels, skunks, river otters, wolverines, ermines, etc.
Bet that's more than you wanted to know, isn't it?? *gigggle*

[coyote]

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Damn, I'm getting grouchy lately.

Must be the dolphins.

Hey, CrapIsMastery... I challenge you to come back to this site in five years and read your own damn posts -- and then try to sleep that night. Fucking dare you.

[Lore]

Stop feeding the troll!

[Ferretlover]

Site to visit:


http://www.thefutureschannel.com/docket ... ed_ferret/

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('OilIsMastery', 'h')ttp://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070809/sc_nm/ferrets_return_dc

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')ASHINGTON (Reuters) - The black-footed ferret, once the rarest mammal in the world, has made an astonishing comeback in Wyoming after a captive breeding program, researchers said on Thursday.

An estimated 223 of the weasel-like animals are busy hunting prairie dogs in the Shirley Basin area, the researchers report in this week's issue of the journal Science.

[jboogy]

The yangtze river dolphin was declared extinct recently.supposedly due to increased shipping and bare-hook longlining in the river. At least this should make Oily happy.

[OilIsMastery]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jboogy', 'T')he yangtze river dolphin was declared extinct recently.supposedly due to increased shipping and bare-hook longlining in the river. At least this should make Oily happy.

[dbruning]

Don't forget pollution and runoff, pretty sure they contributed to it as well.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'n')dustrial pollution, depleted food due to overfishing, loss of habitat, and the construction of the Three Gorges Dam put further pressure on the dolphin.

[jboogy]

Humans au jus' would make them little green chefs.

[pip]

Somebody send me some ferrets. The prarie dogs have absolutely destroyed 40 acres of native grass on my farm over the last 3 years. Once a nice buffalo grass field is now weeds and bare dirt.

[jboogy]

I gots no patience for varmints,my headaches are rabbits in the veggies and armadillos digging in the grass.I got four worthless dogs that play,explore,sleep all day, shit right around the house,eat, get muddy and chew my stuff.They've caught ONE rabbit so far!Their only saving grace is they bark when people drive up.Little ingrates.