{"id":4303,"date":"2025-07-12T13:12:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T13:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/4303\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T13:12:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T13:12:03","slug":"most-endangered-mammal-in-north-america-arrives-at-roosevelt-park-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/4303\/","title":{"rendered":"Most-endangered mammal in North America arrives at Roosevelt Park Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MINOT, N.D. (KMOT) &#8211; There\u2019s another new member to the Roosevelt Park Zoo family, and this time it\u2019s a rare black-footed ferret.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The ferret\u2019s name is Carnelian, and it\u2019s North America\u2019s most endangered mammal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Carnelian came from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Black Footed Ferret Conservation Center in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Carnelian is healthy, though the zoo said they have found other black footed ferrets in the wild that carry illness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The four-year-old male ferret can be found in an enclosure in the Visitor\u2019s Center and is known to be small, sneaky and fast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KFYR. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINOT, N.D. (KMOT) &#8211; There\u2019s another new member to the Roosevelt Park Zoo family, and this time it\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[4958,192,79],"class_list":["post-4303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-azfamily","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}