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Bring Back the Black-Foot

  • September 6, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Black-footed ferrets mainly eat prairie dogs, but their food supply was greatly reduced when farmers began killing prairie dogs. Once thought extinct, these endangered nocturnal ferrets are slowly being re-introduced into the wild through captive breeding programs.

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