Quick Take Female ferrets (jills) only ovulate after mating, so unpaired jills can stay in heat with high estrogen for weeks.

Few data are published about different ferret husbandry practices in terms of housing, enrichment, feeding, social management, and the health status of ferrets. However, these factors are crucial for ...

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.

Twenty-five years ago today, a dog in Wyoming arrived at its owner's doorstep with a dead black-footed ferret in its mouth. Until then, biologists had thought the species was extinct. Within a few ...

Wild black-footed ferret wearing a novel tracking collar peers out of a prairie dog burrow. Roshan Patel, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Photos and b-roll are available ...

Parameters for measuring animal responses to painful stimuli fall into three general categories: physiological, biochemical, and behavioral. In animal research, physiological parameters, such as ...

In 2020, the black-footed ferret became the first endangered species in North America to be cloned in an effort to increase its vulnerable numbers. Now, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in ...