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At about 3:30 a.m., four hours into our drive, Travis Livieri’s phone began to thrum. “I’ve got a ferret for you,” a voice crackled through the static. The animal in question was one of North ...

The rare creatures are native to a swath of states from Montana to Texas, and federal wildlife officials are reintroducing them there. Their... Black-footed ferrets have "a lot of hair, big bad teeth ...