Calling it a big day for wildlife conservation, experts introduced 30 rare black-footed ferrets into a prairie dog colony on the 44,000-acre Southern Planes Preserve in Lamar, Colorado. This is the eighth group of ferrets introduced in the state.
Source: Outdoors, October 21, 2022. Link. A robust prairie dog colony is crucial to the survival of black-footed ferret as prairie dogs make up an estimated 90 percent of their diet.