Wind Cave National Park has a dozen new sets of the masked eyes peeping of prairie dog Burrows, after the lasted introduction of black-foot ferrets there.
The U.s. fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service recently released seven male and five female ferrets in the cities of the prairie dog park. The ferrets were bred in captivity at the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center in northern Colorado.
The ferrets were scheduled for release elsewhere, but wildlife officials changed plans because sylvatic plague was decimated prairie dog towns in the other locations. Ferrets prairie dogs eating and healthy populations to survive dependent.
With the new additions, the park the ferret population estimated at 45 to 50.
The ferret is considered one of the rarest land mammals in North America.
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