Mini
From your description, these animals sound like the extremely endangered
black footed ferret. If so, this is indeed a tragedy.
 
I don't know if BBF's have been released in the area where these little
ones were found, but it is astonishing that wildlife officials in the area
would not know what they are.
 
See http://www.acmeferret.com/saveBFFs/ for a picture.
 
Linda Iroff
The Raisin Retreat
Oberlin, Ohio
http://www.oberlin.edu/~liroff/ncfs.html
 
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[Posted in FML issue 2515]