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  2. Ferret - Wikipedia

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    Most albino ferrets are not deaf; if deafness does occur in an albino ferret, this may be due to an underlying white coat pattern which is obscured by the albinism. [31] Health problems can occur in unspayed females when not being used for breeding. [33] Similar to domestic cats, ferrets can also suffer from hairballs and dental

  3. Sylvatic plague - Wikipedia

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    Prairie dog colonies reach nearly 100% mortality rates during outbreaks. Prairie dogs are a keystone species and play a vital role as the primary prey of black-footed ferrets. Developing methods to control plague is of high concern for preserving ferrets and the conservation of Western prairie and grassland ecosystems. [1]

  4. Kosher animals - Wikipedia

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    If a bird kills other animals to get its food, eats meat, or is a dangerous bird, then is not kosher, a predatory bird is unfit to eat, raptors like the eagles, hawks, owls and other hunting birds are not kosher, vultures and other carrion-eating birds are not kosher either. [96]

  5. While not as popular as dogs, ferrets are the 'clowns ... - AOL

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    While not nearly as popular as cats and dogs, ferrets also love human attention and can do many of the same cute tricks. An American Veterinary Medical Association survey from 2021 found .1% of ...

  6. Are Ferrets Good Pets? What You Need to Know - AOL

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    Ferrets can make friends with other common household pets (especially cats) if acclimated to them from an early age, but introducing animals to each other is a tricky prospect, one that only gets ...

  7. Black-footed ferret - Wikipedia

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    The black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes), also known as the American polecat [4] or prairie dog hunter, [5] is a species of mustelid native to central North America. The black-footed ferret is roughly the size of a mink and is similar in appearance to the European polecat and the Asian steppe polecat. It is largely nocturnal and solitary ...

  8. Unclean animal - Wikipedia

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    According to the majority of Sunni scholars, dogs can be owned by farmers, hunters, and shepherds for the purpose of hunting and guarding and the Qur'an states that it is permissible to eat what trained dogs catch. [32] Among the Bedouin, the saluki dogs are cherished as companions and allowed in the tents.

  9. Mustelinae - Wikipedia

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    Ferrets are used to study COVID-19. [5] Ferrets get some of the same symptoms as humans, [6] but they get less sick than farmed mink. [7] Ferrets are a fairly uncommon animal to use as a model, but mice were not an easy model of COVID-19 because mice lack the ACE2 gene. [5]