THE BLACK FOOTED FERRET

Their colour blends in well with grasslands, soils and plants. They have slender bodies and sharp claws to crawl in and out of tunnels and burrows.

Black Footed Ferrets live in grasslands  and deserts lands. Black-footed ferrets use prairie dog burrows for raising young, avoiding predators, and thermal cover. 

 Black-footed ferrets sometimes eat squirrels, mice, and other rodents. Prairie dogs are essential to their survival, making up the majority of the ferret diet. 

Black Footed Ferret threats are golden eagles, great horned owls, coyotes, American badgers, bobcats, prairie falcons, ferruginous hawks, and rattlesnakes.

Black Footed Ferrets once lived throughout the North America Great Plains, wherever prairie dog colonies were , from southern Canada to northern Mexico. Today, they have been reintroduced into parts of their former range in Wyoming, South Dakota, Montana and Arizona. Black-footed ferrets are very loud.

• The black-footed ferret, also known as the American polecat or prairie dog hunter, is a species of mustelid[family of carnivore mammals such as otters and badgers] are  native to central North America . It is listed as endangered by the IUCN [International Union for Conservation of Nature] , because of its very small and restricted populations.