Radiated Tortoise
These causes are endangering the radiated tortoise
What is the illegal pet trade & poaching industries?
They are used for herbal medicine & viewed as a luxury food item.
Ferrets are ___ carnivores
What are obligate?
This helps protect ferrets from bacterial infections & food poisoning because food passes through the digestive tract faster than the time it takes for bacteria to produce.
What is a short digestive tract
Ferrets exhibit these type of behaviors
What is the weasel war dance, dooking and hissing
Black footed ferrets play an important role in the ecosystem for these reasons?
What is regulating prairie dog populations and acting as a food source.
You can get this amount of money for a single tortoise in Madagascar
What is up to $800 each.
True or False
Ferrets have a fast metabolism & need access to food throughout the day and are fed a special dry food that is formulated to provide for all of their nutritional needs.
TRUE
A kit is this
What is a baby ferret
Ferrets are relative of this species
What is the European polecat?
These are the threats to the black-footed ferret
What is agriculture, disease and habitat loss?
Prairie dogs have been viewed as a pest by farmers and have been hunted extensively, removing the black footed ferrets primary food source and homes.
Ferrets field of vision are about ___ degrees.
What is 270 degrees??
8-18 kits is the typical number for this
What is a litter of baby ferrets?
Ferrets were domesticated for these reasons
What is enhancing specific traits and to assist hunters in driving animals like rabbits out of burrows.
This was the cause of ferrets being considered an invasive species
What are rabbits?
In 1877 in New Zealand, farmers had an odd problem to deal with. Rabbits were brought by travelers as a food source and many were released into the environment. The rabbit population exploded and they began grazing on crops, costing farmers millions of dollars. Farmers released 4,000 ferrets. The solution worked but then a new problem happened. The ferrets breeded with native polecats & preyed extensively on native bird species. It is now illegal to import ferrets to New Zealand
Ferrets are known to fall from windows and high places due to this reason.
What is terrible depth perception?
Kits are the size of an adult human's ___ at birth
What is a pinky finger
Ferrets are considered a model organism, which makes them very useful for what?
What is medical research?
They share more genes in common with humans than mice
Ferrets did this to help out with the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana
What is running wires & cables at Buckingham palace.
Ferrets have been used to run wires & cables through tight spaces and are fitted with a harness and lured through small spaces with treats. A ferret named Misty helped wire new computers for missile warning systems at the US Space Command Center
This causes a ferret to be bendy.
What is a longer vertebral column?
Ferret also means ____ due to their known behavior of stealing objects and hiding them away
What is little thief?
This type of ferret is native to North American grasslands.
What is the black footed ferret?