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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 ...
The modern classification arose in 1982 when Phillip M. Youngman placed the black-footed ferret into Putorius. [3] The ancestor of modern polecats and ferrets and earliest true polecat is considered to be Mustela stromeri , a smaller species whose size indicated polecats evolved at a late period.
Paul Marinari, senior curator at the Smithsonian’s NZCBI, said: ... The black-footed ferret species was thought to be extinct in 1981, but was later rediscovered and has now been given a second ...
The first cloned black-footed ferret. Elizabeth Ann (born December 10, 2020) is a black-footed ferret , the first U.S. endangered species to be cloned . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The animal was cloned using the frozen cells from Willa, a black-footed female ferret who died in the 1980s [ 3 ] and had no living descendants. [ 4 ]
The animal was a black-footed ferret, once abundant in the American West with a range that stretched into Canada and Mexico, but by the 1980s the species was believed to have been wiped out.
The two baby black-footed ferrets, called kits, could reintroduce completely lost DNA to the species, scientists said. Send in the clones: 2 black-footed ferret babies born to cloned mom for the ...
Black-footed ferret. M. nigripes (Audubon, 1851) Three small areas in central United States: Size: 50–53 cm (20–21 in) long, plus 11–13 cm (4–5 in) tail [85] Habitat: Shrubland and grassland [86] Diet: Primarily eats prairie dogs [86] EN 200 [86] Egyptian weasel. M. subpalmata Hemprich, 1833: Nile river delta in Egypt
Once thought to be extinct, the cloning is a first for a US endangered species, ushering a new era for North America's only ferret species. The black-footed ferret was believed extinct until 18 ...