MINOT, N.D. (KMOT) – There’s another new member to the Roosevelt Park Zoo family, and this time it’s a rare black-footed ferret.
The ferret’s name is Carnelian, and it’s North America’s most endangered mammal.
The zoo said it went extinct in the 70s, but a rancher in Wyoming unknowingly found more of its kind, and conservationists were able to bring the species back to wildlife by the late 80s.
Carnelian came from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Black Footed Ferret Conservation Center in Colorado.
Carnelian is healthy, though the zoo said they have found other black footed ferrets in the wild that carry illness.
The four-year-old male ferret can be found in an enclosure in the Visitor’s Center and is known to be small, sneaky and fast.
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