Chigger on the Prowl

From U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Mountain-Prairie Region::

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Chigger on the Prowl

Black-footed ferrets spend most of their time underground, living and raising their young in prairie dog burrows. They are nocturnal, leaving their burrows at night to hunt prairie dogs. Black-footed ferrets eat, on average, one prairie dog every three days and are considered obligate carnivores of prairie dogs, which means that there is an unbreakable link between their main food source and their health. However, they will eat ground squirrels, mice, other rodents, rabbits, and birds on occasion.

Photo: Elisa Dahlberg / USFWS 




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