Black Footed Ferrets are nocturnal animals,They sleep during the day and hunt prairie dogs at night. They are very secretive animals and few people have actually seen them in the wild. They eat, sleep, and raise their young underground, spending almost 90% of their lifespan under your feet.
A healthy population of Black Footed Ferrets needs a large colony of prairie dogs in order to have enough food. Scientists estimated that a prairie dog colonies must be more than 10,000 animals large and for this to happen must be an area covering over 20,000 acres. Because of massive agricultural conversion of the prairie, 20,000 acres of prairie is hard to come by.
The breeding of Black Footed Ferrets is anywhere in March or April. The babies are called kits and kits are born anywhere from May to July. Kits range from 1-7 in a litter and average 3-5 in a litter. They are born blind and helpless and are raised by mother for two months until they can be taken out of the den and taught how to hunt for themselves, after about three months of this, they are independent to start their own dens.
Black Footed Ferret Kits! So adorable!
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