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  • Eastern Utah gets 37 endangered black footed ferrets

    Ralph Maughan

    Once thought extinct, reintroduction to Utah just one of a growing number- The black-footed ferret, closely related to the weasel, but a predatory specialist that eats prairie dogs almost exclusively (about 92% of their diet), was thought to be extinct back in the 1970s.  Amazingly a pet dog discovered a colony near Meeteetse, Wyoming in…

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