Experts from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are considering an ambitious plan to protect endangered ferrets by using drones to drop peanut-butter flavor vaccine pellets in a Montana wildlife ...

There are only about 300 black-footed ferrets alive in the wild, making them one of the rarest mammals in the United States. But these elusive critters are vulnerable to the sylvatic plague, a ...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service wants to make sure endangered ferrets stay safe from a deadly disease, so it comes up with a plan involving peanut butter pellets delivered via drones. In an effort to ...

A young black-footed ferret learns to hunt prairie dogs at the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center US Fish and Wildlife Service via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) The black-footed ferret ...

In central Montana, drones are dropping peanut butter pellets on prairie dog colonies. It's part of an effort by biologists to save North America's most endangered mammal — the black-footed ferret (or ...

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