Jasmyn wrote:
>Isn't there a curator at a zoo that specializes in mustilids who can send
>in a letter to set these bozos straight about ferrets?
Actually they wouldn't have too far to go. The Zoological Society of San
Diego, Director of Collections, James M. Dolan, Jr. PhD wrote, on April
11, 1990: "... regarding the European Ferret, furo. This is simply a
domestic form of the European polecat. It does not exist as a wild animal."
Dick B.
[Posted in FML issue 1760]