Breeding Dogs Endangered Species Fur 
10,000 Birds
MAY 11, 2012
Somewhere around the Platte River one of the Audubon boys received a black-footed hide from a fur trader. American scientists, realizing belatedly how embarrassing it was to know so little about a species right in the heart of their own continent, rushed to study this remnant population. But the ferrets kept dying.
10,000 Birds
JULY 16, 2013
Their numbers have declined so rapidly that a paltry 10 percent of the pre-20th century population remains (read Adam Riley’s post on Africa’s endangered species ). On the mainland they face predation from domestic cats, dogs, genets, mongoose and Cape Gulls which steal their chicks and eggs.
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