Age
9-12
Grade
4-7
Rachel Stuckey
Bringing Back the Black-Footed Ferret
Paperback
(Crabtree Pub Co Sept. 30, 2019)
"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"--
- Series
- Animals Back from the Brink
- ISBN
- 0778763242 / 9780778763246
- Pages
- 32
- Weight
- 4.5 oz.
- Dimensions
- 7.7 x 0.2
in.