characteristicas extinct animal....

1. FERRET BLACK FEET

2. EXTINCT ANIMAL
Currently lives in North america
It is a small carnivorous mammal of the family of weasels, Minks, Polecats, blankets, otters and badgers. It
is in danger of extinction , These ferrets have a body with short legs lengthened.
Their fur is yellowish-Brown, her mouth and throat are white, while their feet are black, the has a black
mask around their eyes.
It has a diet that consists 90% of Prairie dogs, the rest consisting of rats, mice, birds, squirrels, rabbits and
sometimes reptiles and insects.

3. • They are rather solitary animals except during breeding, and males do not collaborate in the care of
the young. They are territorial animals who defend their areas very active competitors of the same
sex.

4. ITS HABITAT
Its habitat is between mountains and in semi-arid grasslands and steppes of central western North
America.
It measures between 35 and 50 cm, with a tail of 15 cm, and weighing 1 kg. Your skin is white.
They are nocturnal and spend most of the time in their burrows under the ground.
They do not hibernate, but in times of cold decreases its activity.
To communicate are based on olfactory communication (they urinate, they defecateto designate the
territory). They have anal glands to mark territory with scent.

5. THREATS AND CONSERVATION MEASURES
• The species was reduced over the past century to almost extinction in the 1970s, mainly due to the
puppy of the grasslands and wild pests control.
• The number of ferrets that we find depends on factors such as the abundance of dogs, its potential
expansion, stability in the future and the attitude of the owners of areas inhabited and the use of the
public land.
• Black feet ferret scientific name: Mustela nigripes.