Great Bend Zoo joins ferret hunt

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	Great Bend Zoo joins ferret hunt


	A black-footed ferret looks out from a hole at a western Kansas farm. Volunteers with flashlights spent a night counting the ferret population at one ranch. The animals could be spotted by the light reflecting in their eyes. View Larger

Great Bend zoo staff headed to western Kansas in September for the Fall 2010 Ferret survey. Marge Bowen, curator at the Brit Spaugh Zoo, and zookeeper Trish McKinley traveled to Logan County, where conservationists have reintroduced the black-footed ferret, bringing the species back from the brink of extinction. The black-footed ferret differs from tame ferrets sold at pet stores, which are mostly of European descent, McKinley said. They are brown ...

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