Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Crabtree Publishing Company, 2019
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Made available through hoopla
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781427123329 (electronic bk.) MWT13908175, 1427123322 (electronic bk.) 13908175
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The black-footed ferret was once listed as extinct on the prairies of North America. Its population had been devastated by a disease that also reduced its main food source - prairie dogs. This book tells the fascinating story of the black-footed ferret's rediscovery in 1981 by a dog in Wyoming. Readers will learn how the find inspired a captive breeding program that is restoring not only this prairie species to the wild, but its essential food source as well, the prairie dog
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