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Subject:
Black Footed Ferrets
From:
MC <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 4 Mar 1998 01:05:10 -0800
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>Yes, the BFF is wild.  Do you know why it is called a ferret?  When the
>colonists came to America and first saw the BFF they called it a *ferret*
>because it looked like the ferrets they brought over on their ships to
>catch rodents.
 
I don't think our colonists ever saw a Black Footed Ferret.  Please,
someone correct me if I am wrong here, but the DFF lives exclusively on
the Great Plains...its food source was/is the prairie dog.  I don't
believe our settlers made it to the Great Plains until the mid to late
1700's.
 
MC (Joe, The rude one)
[Posted in FML issue 2237]

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