I and a couple of friends (who should have better things to do) re-ran that video and I downloaded it and ran it in slo-mo on realplayer. My friend and her hubby (who don't own ferrets) were fascinated enough to rerun it many times by which time the hubby decided it must be flaps in the coat with the exterior just marked to look as though there were ferrets lined up in rows. That's what I and another friend and probably others guessed too, but I downloaded it to my laptop and wasted an hour running it and rerunning it slowing it down to see if I could see the flaps and count the ferrets as they fell out and ran. Not good enough definition/quality to see exactly despite staring closely when stopping the video. The cameraman did not help since it cut away as the ferrets flowed on to the circus ring and started to run towards the ringmaster. However I think although the laggard ferrets were a bit blurred, there had to have been more than 12 but maybe as many as 15 - it's hard to stop the video right at the end at the right place. In the full screen version the coat obviously had sections, but even with slowing it down, it was hard to see the ferrets fall out. The fox around the neck was obviously used to divert attention from the coat flaps opening. I noticed the lady who wore the coat had broad shoulders - pretty strong looking build, and the coat plus ferrets plus fox would have weighed about 15 x say 1.5 pounds plus (European) red female fox of 20 pounds. European red foxes are a bit smaller than British red foxes and the video is Italian. So the woman would only have to carry 45 pounds at most and it would be distributed pretty evenly. The fox was obviously to distract attention when let go first whilst she somehow pulled a release cable to allow the ferrets to fall. On slo-mo the f's kind of fall out in a blur. Very clever, and nice photogenic sable ferrets too! They also didn't give you a good view of the small "cubicle" and the coat must have been loaded up ahead of time and ready for her in it. Must have been really amazing to see live. For those who haven't looked at it - there's a link in a past fml post - or you can find it at http://elrellano.com/videos_online/4624/circo-roncalli.html The circus is based in Germany according to the main website, http://www.roncalli.de/ where the text is in German, but when the page opens with the video the text is in Italian. Meryl [Posted in FML 7014]