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black-footed ferret
[ blak-foot-id ]
noun
- a weasellike polecat, Mustela nigripes, of prairie regions of the U.S., having a yellowish-brown body with the tip of the tail and legs black: an endangered species.
Word History and Origins
Origin of black-footed ferret1
Example Sentences
Above, a black-footed ferret at an FWS program in Colorado.
For every success story like that of the bald eagle or the black-footed ferret, the Endangered Species Act also has countless failures.
Scientists have created a healthy clone of a black-footed ferret by using DNA from a ferret that died over 30 years ago.
Fusing a ferret fibroblast with an egg cell made an embryo, and a clone - Elizabeth Ann the black-footed ferret - was born in December of 2020.
To boost the black-footed ferret genes, scientists hope to one day breed Elizabeth Ann’s male offspring with a captive black-footed female, thereby ferreting out any domestic genes.
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