The Why of Ferrets
10,000 Birds
MAY 11, 2012
The species was extinct, a vanished part of the vanishing prairie — and not for the first time. Somewhere around the Platte River one of the Audubon boys received a black-footed hide from a fur trader. All the wild ferrets by 1974, and all the kits born to the nine captives, and finally the last of the captive animals in 1979.
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