... , but in an effort to help control an extensive outbreak of plague in South Dakota, some of the ferrets are getting dosed with a vaccine given by biologists. Black-footed ferrets are one of the rarest ...
... as bubonic plague) in a prairie dog population in South Dakota also threatens to decimate ferret populations there.
For more than 10 years, the semen was stored in the Zoo's Black-Footed Ferret ...
... birth to a kit that was sired by males who died in 1999 and 2000. These endangered ferrets - part of a multi-institutional breeding and reintroduction program - were artificially inseminated in May ...
Wildlife enthusiasts are hoping Saskatchewan could be home, once again, to the black-footed ferret, a creature once thought to have been wiped off the ecological map.
... at seaports and airports only generate information on the shape and density of objects or substances. The ferret, however, will be able to provide information on what they actually consist of as well ...
Calling a lithe, sniffing robot a "ferret" raises hopes that it'll be rather cuter than the mockup pictured, but the cargo-screening device in development has capabilities that outshadow its aesthetic ...
A plan to return the black-footed ferret to its once familiar southwest Saskatchewan habitat has been approved, with about 40 critters to set up home once they've been pre-conditioned at a Colorado ...
An excited group of naturalists and wildlife scientists are in Saskatchewan's Grasslands National Park, releasing black-footed ferrets back into the wild.
... -- in all three types of animal models. Two types of animal models (mice and ferrets) were protected from both disease and mortality when exposed to avian flu.
To ensure increased DNA delivery, the ...
... of prairie dog habitat -- including colonies occupied by vulnerable black-footed ferrets -- have been infected by the disease, according to U.S. Forest Service mapping. Black-tailed prairie dogs are ...
... 13 in the journal PLoS ONE, Daniel Perez (of the University of Maryland) and colleagues used ferrets to characterize the mechanism of replication and transmission of recent avian H9N2 viruses. The ...
... of the bladder or microscopic analysis of cells found in the urine.
FISH finds gene, ferrets out bladder cancer
The team used fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) to count copies of the ...
... that species recoveries are possible through targeted conservation efforts."
For example, the Black-footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes) moved from extinct in the wild to endangered after a successful ...
Archaic corporate governing systems that failed to ferret out risky business deals helped stoke the nation's deepest financial meltdown since the Great Depression, a University of Illinois business ...
... time and learned how to interpret moving images.
They watched the brain learning how to see. As a ferret learned to discriminate one pattern of motion from another over the course of a few hours, ...
