Dogs Ferrets Fur Mammals 
10,000 Birds
MAY 11, 2012
Sorry for banging on about black-footed ferrets, but here’s a bit on why this trip was so special to me: Forty years ago the black-footed ferret was a bit more like the Loch Ness Monster than it is today. Somewhere around the Platte River one of the Audubon boys received a black-footed hide from a fur trader.
10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2014
They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. There were no mammals, little game, and not many birds either. Brush-tailed Possums were brought from Australia to help start a fur industry. In many ways, that is exactly what happened.
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