Breeders, pet shops and private sellers offer them as pets. While ferrets may seem like an entertaining choice, the reality is far more complicated. A ferret is a small carnivorous mammal with a ...

This 2-foot-long, black-masked member of the weasel family once occurred in central grasslands and basins from southern Canada to Texas but is now one of the most endangered mammals in North America.

Ferrets last made biomedical headlines in the furor surrounding two papers reporting lab-engineered H5N1 flu strains transmissible between the mammals (See “Deliberating over Danger,” The ... the ...

The domestic ferret, though not as common a laboratory animal as the rat or mouse, serves as a model in critical research areas, including influenza biology and vaccine development. Studies ...

Dogs, cats, and ferrets are the primary pets that require rabies vaccination. “These animals are considered high-risk because they frequently interact with other animals, and then humans. This makes ...