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Wildlife conservationists are celebrating a big milestone reached by a little black-footed ferret and her offspring, born at the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute earlier ...
Two feisty ferret babies in Virginia are being hailed as a symbol of hope for the future of their species. Scientists say Sibert and Red Cloud, black-footed ferret siblings at the Smithsonian's ...
SHAPIRO: And now, with the arrival of Red Cloud and Sibert and the genetic diversity they represent, there's new hope for future generations of black-footed ferrets.
An endangered black-footed ferret named Aristides gave birth on May 28 at the Smithsonian National Zoo’s institute in Front Royal, Virginia.
The black-footed ferret kits, named Sibert and Red Cloud, at six weeks old Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute As many as one million black-footed ferrets lived on the ...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced that Antonia, a clone of a black-footed ferret born in the 1980s, successfully gave birth to two offspring, Sibert and Red Cloud, at the ...
A cloned black-footed ferret successfully gave birth — marking the first time a U.S. clone of an endangered species produced offspring, and an opportunity to rebuild the black-footed ferret ...
because black-footed ferrets are critically endangered. Along with the red wolf and key deer, the black-footed ferret is considered to be one of the most rare and endangered mammals in all of ...