Wildlife conservationists are celebrating a big milestone reached by a little black-footed ferret and her offspring, born at ...

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Sibert and Red Cloud, black-footed ferret siblings at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, are ...

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In a "groundbreaking achievement," a clone of an endangered species of ferret has given birth to babies for the very first time. The mother, named Antonia, is a clone of another black-footed ...

The exotic pet trade has exploded recently, with millions of unconventional animals being bought and sold globally. This ...

One of the most recently released black-footed ferrets at SPLT (photo courtesy of Karen Voepel) EDITOR’S NOTE:  This is Part ...

Antonia the ferret successfully delivered two healthy kits after mating with Urchin, a three-year-old male of the same species, at the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute ...

and after a little wait the little ferret decided she’d quite like to be rescued after all and I caught her quite easily, she was clearly really tame and let me pick her up." He added ...

A cloned ferret named Antonia successfully gave birth to two kits earlier this year. It was the first time a cloned black-footed ferret has been able to reproduce, the Fish and Wildlife Service said.

So he trained the ferret to walk on a lead, and then on the day we just changed that for fishing line. You couldn’t see it. He had a little harness around his body with the wire on it ...