Furtive ferret: North America’s rarest mammal turns up in Colorado garage

Takeaways:

• North America’s rarest mammal, the black-footed ferret, was found in a Colorado’s garage
• Only about 600 of these animals exist in the wild- populations have been slowly growing due to captive-breading
• This ferret was one of nine that was released weeks earlier at Walker Ranch in Colorado
• It was captured by Colorado Parks and Wildlife and was returned back into its colony […]

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