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The Why of Ferrets

10,000 Birds

Somewhere around the Platte River one of the Audubon boys received a black-footed hide from a fur trader. All the wild ferrets by 1974, and all the kits born to the nine captives, and finally the last of the captive animals in 1979. John Bachmann headed west to gather material for Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America.

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