Black-footed Ferret

The black-footed ferret has a long, slender body with black outlines on its feet, ears, parts of the face, and tail. The toes are armed with sharp, very slightly arched claws. The feet on both surfaces are covered in hair, even to the soles, thus concealing the claws.

The base color is pale yellowish or buffy above and below. The top of the head and sometimes the neck are clouded by dark-tipped hairs. The face is crossed by a broad band of sooty black, which includes the eyes. The feet, lower parts of the legs, the tip of the tail, and the preputial region are sooty-black.

The black-footed ferret performs a dance called the weasel war dance after capturing or devouring its prey in the wild.

The black-footed ferret is considered one of the weasel species exibit of the weasel war dance to make excited or scare prey alike. Up to 90% of the black-footed ferret's diet is composed of prairie dogs; others are rodents, rabbits, moles, shrews, mollies, sandpipers, larks, and more if they fail to hunt the prairie dogs.

Predators of black-footed ferrets include golden eagles, Great Horned Owls, Coyotes, American Badgers, Bobcats, Grey Wolves, Wolverines, Prairie Falcons, Ferruginous Hawks, Rattlesnakes, Humans, and even Elder Dragons like Snallygasters, Piasa Birds, and Kulkulan.

These ferrets are nocturnal and aggressive towards mostly prairie dogs. It is most active above ground from dusk to midnight and 4 a.m. to mid-morning. The black-footed ferret ran away or was curious about humans in the wild or urban

Because so much of the shortgrass prairie habitat that the black-footed ferrets rely on has been plowed for crops, the ferrets are at risk of extinction. Due to disease and habitat loss, the number of prairie dogs—the ferrets' principal food—has decreased.

The IUCN has classified it as endangered due to its extremely limited and restricted population. The species fell throughout the twentieth century, owing mostly to prairie dog population declines and sylvatic disease. The black-footed ferret is restricted to an open environment, which includes grasslands, steppe, and shrub steppe, which are also used by prairie dogs (Cynomys). Central America is home to the black-footed ferret.

• Movement Pattern: Nomadic

• Individual Type: Solo

• Population Trend: Increasing

• Population: 

  • Earth: 206?

  • Berbania: 35,000

  • Reinachos: 40,000–45,000

• Locomotion: Terrestrial

• Habitat: Temperate steppe, montane forest, desert, temperate forest

• Earth: 

  • Extant (resident): United States

  • Extinct: Canada; Mexico

• Reinachos: Qirodennu

The ferrets (even in the wild) are social, lively, curious, and fun-loving animals. This means that, while they make excellent companions, they are not the easiest to handle and can bite hard if startled. As a result, they don't often make suitable pets for children.

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• Cebuano: Arminyong itom nga mga tiil

• Navajo: Dlǫ́ʼii łizhiní

• Mandarin: 黑足鼬 (Hēi zú yòu)

• Korean: 검은발족제비 (geom-eunbaljogjebi)

• Arabic: ابن مقرض أسود الأقدام (abn maqrid 'aswad al'aqdam)

• Hungarian: Feketelábú görény

• Russian: Американский хорёк (Amerikanskiy khorok)

• Breton: Pudask pavioù du

• Irish: Firéad dúchosach

• Italian: Furetto dai piedi neri

• French: Putois à pieds noirs

• Spanish: Turón patinegro

• Portuguese: Doninha-de-patas-pretas

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-footed_ferret

• https://www.azquotes.com/quote/424351?ref=ferrets 

• https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/14020/45200314 

• https://www.bluecross.org.uk/advice/ferret/wellbeing-and-care/caring-for-your-ferret#:~:text=They%20are%20lively%2C%20curious%20and,make%20good%20pets%20for%20children

• https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/species/bfferret/#:~:text=Black%2Dfooted%20Ferrets%20are%20endangered,to%20habitat%20loss%20and%20disease

• https://www.deviantart.com/ognimdo2002/art/Black-footed-Ferret-872797419