Black-footed Ferret

STUDENTS: JOSEPH MENDOZA

L U C A S S I LVA
G R A D E : 11 T H
TEACHERS: ANDREA FRANCO
MICHELLE REYES
 Scientific Name
• Mustela Nigripies
 Where do Black-footed ferret live?

Black-footed ferrets live only on

prairie dog towns in the Great
Plains (Arizona, Colorado,
Kansas, Montana, Nebraska,
New Mexico, North Dakota,
Oklahoma, South Dakota,
Texas, Utah and Wyoming and
portions of Canada and Mexico).
Number of Specimens Alive
• There are now over 1,000
mature, wild-born individuals
in the wild across 18
populations, with five self-
sustaining populations in
South Dakota (two), Arizona,
Wyoming and Saskatchewan.
Characteristics of the Animal
• The length of its body is 35 to
50 cm, with a tail of thick fur
of 15 cm, and can weigh 1 kg.
The males are 10% larger
than the females.
 Diet of the Animal
• It is a small carnivorous
mammal that has a diet that
is composed of 90% of prairie
dogs, the rest consisting of
rats, mice, squirrels, rabbits
and sometimes reptiles and
insects.
REASONS WHY THEY HAVE
BECOME AN ENDANGERED
SPECIES

The species declined

throughout the 20th
century, primarily as a (sylvatic plague)
result of decreases in
prairie dog populations (prairie dog)
and sylvatic plague.
bibliography
• http://www.animalesextincion.es/art
iculo.php?id_noticia=000165&titulo
=Huron_de_pies_negros_(Mustela_
nigripes)
• https://defenders.org/black-footed-
ferret/basic-facts
• http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/fu
ll/14020/0
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-
footed_ferret