skunks, pot-bellied pigs, red foxes, sugar gliders, slow loris, gerbils, ferrets, and large cats like lions, tigers. Wolves can also be owned with special exotic animal permits. If you are more interested in the arachnid variety, check out tarantulas or even Madagascar hissing cockroaches. E...
Fish and Wildlife Service Once believed to be extinct, these ferrets have made a remarkable comeback. Nearly all wild black-footed ferrets were wiped out by disease and the extermination of prairie dogs, which were the animals' main food source. But a small population of the species was dis...
National Institutes of Health, had “mutated the hell out of H5N1,” turning the bird flu into something that could infect ferrets (laboratory stand-ins for human beings). And then, Fouchier continued, he had done “something really, really stupid,” swabbing the noses of the infected ...
SARS-CoV-2 replicates poorly in dogs, pigs, chickens, and ducks, but replicates well in cats and ferrets, as these animals are permissive to the infection; infected animals can infect other animals of the same species.65,66 Moreover, antibodies for SARS-CoV-2 were detected in cats in ...