...and, yes, ferrets are involved directly in at least one.  You should
expect to find other articles in today's anniversary NY Times Science
Section which are also of strong interest but which don't involve ferrets
though some of those include topics which have come under discussion in
relation to ferrets such as caloric deprivation in the article on weight
(interesting to find that higher primate studies are incomplete).
Anyway, take a look through the other science section articles, too,
because multiple ones will be of interest to anyone here.
 
http://nytimes.com/2003/11/11/science/11SLEE.html
 
Some other articles I skimmed or read which relate to past discussions
here but do not specifically mention ferrets:
http://nytimes.com/2003/11/11/science/11ANIM.html
http://nytimes.com/2003/11/11/science/11BRAI.html
http://nytimes.com/2003/11/11/science/11EAT.html
 
There are others with a more tenuous link to past FML discussions.
 
Here is the index:
http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2003/11/10/science/text/index.html
[Posted in FML issue 4329]