The plague is lethal to both ferrets and prairie dogs, who provide ferrets with a source of food and tunnels for shelter.
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Just wait until we get to the "All Ferrets" issue, where we just follow [one of Jonesy's pet ferrets] Rocky around for a full day of being a ferret.
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I would love to see some ferrets in the remake.
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He's quick to point out there were no ferrets, though.
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A harmless prank that might end with them loving ferrets!
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Viruses that succeed in ferrets are often successful in humans.
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Those viruses then typically are studied in ferrets, he said.
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Captive breeding efforts (including artificially inseminating ferrets with semen frozen from those 1980s ferrets) have brought the population up to 300 living in captivity, and now conservationists are working to establish a sustainable wild population.
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In May, American Airlines banned hedgehogs , ferrets and goats from planes.
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Without their primary source of food, black-footed ferrets can't survive.
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The prairie dogs disappear, along with the bison and the ferrets.
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Lastly, here are a couple of weasels (black-footed ferrets, specifically).
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Oh, and ferrets, but the less said about that, the better.
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Sam Humphries: Jonesy will pilot a giant robot made of ferrets.
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Locked in a small room with a swarm of rabid ferrets.
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Black-footed ferrets depend on prairie dogs for food and shelter.
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It has been used successfully in 20 species, including ferrets and camels.
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Among the hunters were a few ferrets, according to organizer Eugene Ferreira.
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Similarly, exotic animals like ferrets and birds need to see specialized veterinarians.
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The other, Mustelinae, includes badgers, weasels, and ferrets, among other similar mammals.
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A California statute from the 1930s banned ferrets because they were nonnative.
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The plague is doubly dangerous to ferrets, since it can affect them directly (when they're bitten by fleas) and indirectly through prairie dogs, which are also affected by the plague and are a food source for the ferrets.
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She has written extensively for Fancy Publications on the topic of domestic ferrets.
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Starting in July, American Airlines will ban ferrets, hedgehogs, and goats from their planes.
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"I always joke that black-footed ferrets are the worst possible neighbors," Moehring said.
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I started out our journey really skeptical of the value of saving the ferrets.
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In "Tinker, Tailor," Smiley ferrets out a traitor high in the ranks of MI6.
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Ferrets are usually playful and sociable, but also territorial, according to the Merck Manual.
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Airlines are not required to accommodate certain service animals, including ferrets, rodents and reptiles.
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Weren't ferrets big in the 1980s, the era now known as Peak Trump I?
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They found that the virus replicated efficiently in mice, ferrets and non-human primates, and that it caused even more severe disease in mice and ferrets than a low pathogenic version of the same virus that does not cause illness in birds.
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Black-footed ferrets not only eat prairie dogs, but they also live in their burrows.
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Its previous policy only prohibited some animals such as hedgehogs, sugar gliders, insects and ferrets.
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The book is imbued with the manic pace and humor — some of it involving ferrets!
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That magnificent, nightmarish plan is actually the best shot the 300 remainingwild ferrets have at surviving.
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Ferrets need lots of play and exercise to remain healthy, and Nova is happy to oblige.
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Unlike mice, ferrets are able to transmit the flu among themselves and exhibit human-like symptoms.
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He once got in a screaming fight about ferrets while hosting a call-in radio show.
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The researchers found that treating the ferrets 12 hours after infection completely stopped the disease from progressing.
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Adventurous ferrets will love to run, slide and squirm their way through this Super Thru-way tunnel.
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The force is strong with this battery-operated Yoda toy, but less so with this trio of ferrets.
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Soon afterward, scientists called to the scene found a small colony of 18 ferrets near the Hogg farm.
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An opinion article last Sunday about the use of biotechnology to protect biodiversity described black-footed ferrets incorrectly.
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Aggressive conservation policies have managed to bring back species on the brink, like black footed ferrets and Giant pandas.
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All reintroduction programs run into problems, but black ferrets have faced one whopper of a problem: the bubonic plague.
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The biographer ferrets out the facts, but the novelist shows us just how delicate and unstable they really are.
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Existing rules allow U.S. airlines to deny transport to animals such as snakes, other reptiles, ferrets, rodents and spiders.
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Rodents of all kinds, as well as ferrets, spiders, snakes, and other reptiles, are not permitted on Spirit Airlines flights.
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Prairie dogs are extremely susceptible to sylvatic plague, a non-native disease that can devastate populations, depriving ferrets of food.
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For all the light streaming into the new parliament building, Vietnam's Communist Party remains a dark sack full of ferrets.
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The Air Carrier Access Act states airlines are not required to accept snakes, reptiles, ferrets, rodents, sugar gliders or spiders.
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To learn more, the researchers examined the brains of eight mammals: cats, dogs, bears, lions, hyenas, ferrets, mongoose and raccoons.
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SUNDAY REVIEW An opinion article last Sunday about the use of biotechnology to protect biodiversity described black-footed ferrets incorrectly.
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But when I failed my Middle Egyptian midterm junior year, it wasn't because my snake scribbles looked more like ferrets.
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The business of government, after all, also involves confrontation, as when it ferrets out fraud or brings murderers to justice.
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In the worse case scenario for pet owners, dogs, cats and even ferrets might need health certificates and rabies jabs.
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Our scientists developed a biological model for SARS, using ferrets, in order to identify the original host of the virus: bats.
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In 2011, scientists reported experiments that made lethal strains of bird flu transmissible between ferrets (lab-animal proxies for human transmission).
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At home, he adores his pet ferrets, said defender Paige Harrington and forward Devon Skeats, who share a house with Browne.
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The researchers then measured how the virus behaved in mice and ferrets, the most commonly used animal models for influenza studies.
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When ferrets get a rabies shot in a neurobiology lab, they don't get infected with the virus—or even inoculated against it.
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This summer, New Zealand announced its intention to eradicate all introduced predators by 2050, including rats, possums, stoats, ferrets, and feral cats.
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Interestingly, this technique was developed for and is still widely used in animal husbandry (for bulls, ferrets, leopards, elephants, hippopotamuses, among others).
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There's no tech tree, no investment in upgrading units, and you can pivot from making squirrels to making ferrets in an instant.
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From cats and ferrets to birds and snakes, traditionally meat-eating animals of every stripe are being made to go vegan, too.
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That's why the plague threatening to wipe out prairie dogs—the ferrets' main source of food and shelter—is such a problem.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is using M&M-dispensing drones to save endangered black-footed ferrets in rural Montana.
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Triple F Farms — a nod to the phrase "flu-free ferrets" — will provide the animals, which are useful in developing influenza vaccines.
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To this day, waterfowl and other environmental groups support keeping the rule over fears that ferrets could pose a threat to birds.
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Triple F Farms carefully breeds and raises ferrets to ensure they are not infected with the flu prior to being sent to labs.
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The Scripps scientists found that they could quiet the cytokine storm in flu-infected mice and ferrets by giving them an experimental drug.
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Ferrets prey upon prairie dogs, and then occupy their underground burrows for shelter from the weather and safety from predators located above ground.
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Why, if they built giant sets so that the normal-sized people were cat-sized, are the cats exactly the size of ferrets?
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It's the program that makes planting decisions for farmers or ferrets out the possible cancer diagnosis in a patient before a human doctor could.
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Not a knock on ferrets but they have to be cared for and let out under controlled conditions when there are more than six.
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The group has submitted two proposals to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to essentially bring back to life ferrets with rare genes.
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More than 2,100 people took time from their busy daily schedules of feeding their ferrets and sending email forwards to vote in the poll.
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But the animals that scientists will depend on in the lab are mice, first of all, and then perhaps ferrets or hamsters or monkeys.
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Vlad, the Russian actor, mimed preparing to hang himself, and we became his talking pet ferrets, begging him not to go through with it.
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As daughter Perdita grows older and more curious about her mother's mysterious upbringing, she digs into the past and ferrets out a thorny family legacy.
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A group of apes is called a shrewdness; a group of ferrets is called a business; a group of small satellites is called a constellation.
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The flea-borne sylvatic plague has wiped out most of the ferret's favorite snack—prairie dogs—and when the dogs die, so do the ferrets.
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The dreaded audit is the main way the I.R.S. catches scofflaws and ferrets out unreported income, but it is a time-consuming and imperfect tool.
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The distemper virus is fatal and highly contagious for raccoons and can also spread to dogs and other animals like skunks and ferrets, PetMD reports.
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By this time, your buzz has morphed into utter misery, and you're positive you will die alone surrounded by pizza boxes and a dozen domesticated ferrets.
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In this two-episode saga, Grand Jedi Master Yoda attempts his greatest challenge yet: To turn three energetic ferrets into upstanding members of the Jedi Order.
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Plucky little mice, badgers, hedgehogs, and moles hole up in an ancient abbey while vicious rats and ferrets try to storm it and enslave its defenders.
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You might wonder what kind of rabbit hole one could fall down when researching the phrase "ferrets as fashion" (just one of my many job responsibilities).
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Because ferrets suffer roughly the same effects from flu that humans do, the development was "not good for public health," said the virologist, Dr. Yoshihiro Kawaoka.
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He ferrets out secrets and uses them to get others to do his bidding, all the while keeping his own secrets extremely close to his chest.
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Both black-footed ferrets and prairie dogs are highly susceptible to the Sylvatic plague, and once a prairie dog colony is infected, the disease can spread quickly.
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According to GeoBeat News, a man in Argentina was giving ferrets steroids at birth, to make the animals larger, so he could sell them as toy poodles.
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Major limitations of the new study include that it was conducted only in mice and ferrets, and that experiments were performed only on the influenza A virus.
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Technically so might dogs, cats, miniature horses, kangaroos, possums, parrots, hamsters, ducks, turkeys, ferrets, lizards, snakes, turtles and a variety of other animals seldom seen at 35,000 feet.
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Along with giving steroids to the ferrets the seller reportedly also styled the animals' fur to look more like the curly coat you would find on a poodle.
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In 2014, researchers found that just five mutations could transform an avian flu into an airborne virus—making it far more likely to spread (at least among ferrets).
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The colonists brought with them a menagerie of new predators including two more species of rat, mice, cats, stoats, weasels and ferrets from Europe, and possums from Australia.
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Two out of three healthy ferrets infected in this way died, which Kawaoka said is "extremely unusual," suggesting that even a small amount of virus can cause severe disease.
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In 2011, two different groups of researchers announced plans to publish research in which they'd modified H5N1 — in ferrets, not in humans — to make it transmissible through the air.
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Parachuted into any far-flung corner of the planet, Bourdain ferrets out the restaurant, known only to discerning locals, where the grilled sardines or the pisco sours are divine.
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And they aren't just a tasty snack, but a specially-designed vaccine intended to keep the prairie dogs plague-free—so that black-footed ferrets can kill and eat them.
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Bison, which also improved the soil with their clomping, fed on the rich grasses, and golden eagles and ferrets fed on the prairie dogs, which once numbered in the billions.
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Badgers, ferrets and otters are part of the mustelid family: quick-witted carnivores who are capable of competing for food with much larger predators like big cats, wolves and bears.
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"Possums and ferrets are the main carriers of bovine TB, which is a very destructive disease for cattle and deer," the primary industries minister, Nathan Guy, said in a statement.
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In recent years, the variety of emotional-support animals exploded to include monkeys, pigs and ducks as emotional-support animals, although airlines didn't have to accept reptiles, ferrets or rodents.
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He said his parents and in-laws — and their family dogs — were buried among the 80,000 pets interred at the cemetery, a group that includes turtles, ferrets and guinea pigs.
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Here are some things to consider: Ferrets, hedgehogs, snakes, turtles, rabbits, among many others, can be found in pet stores, but there can be problems with keeping them as pets.
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Mr. Smithwick added that the dark feathers around the eyes indicate that Sinosauropteryx had "bandit masks," most famously seen in raccoons, but also in some badgers, ferrets and red pandas.
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The trust has spent the last few years trying to rid the town of pests — including weasels, possums and ferrets — and encourage rare native birds to flock back to Omaui.
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At about the same time, a well-known virologist at the University of Wisconsin — Madison showed that a Chinese H7N9 strain could both kill ferrets and be transmitted between them.
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Mr. Sutherland regularly checks box traps set in the forest to catch ferrets, stoats and rats that prey on the young, flightless birds, refilling the traps with fresh eggs for bait.
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Inevitably, he said, vaccine and treatment researchers will move to other animals, perhaps hamsters and ferrets, but certainly monkeys, which are most likely to replicate how the disease progresses in humans.
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On exam, his arms and hands were covered with scratches and scars, souvenirs from a practice devoted to reptiles, birds and what he called pocket pets — ferrets, rabbits and small rodents.
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Scientists knew they needed to figure out how to keep the prairie dogs disease-free, but were in a race against time -- there are only several hundred black-footed ferrets in existence.
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The black-footed ferret has flirted with extinction more than once over the last few decades, with the population dwindling to just 18 ferrets on the whole planet by the early 80s.
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Why it matters: In a study released today, McKinsey ferrets out 400 practical current use cases for AI that it says could be worth $3.5 trillion a year in savings and sales.
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If promising drugs are found, investigators plan to try them in an animal infected with the coronavirus — perhaps ferrets, because they're known to get SARS, an illness closely related to Covid-19.
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It is about a man who starts killing animals uncontrollably on a hunting trip: foxes, beavers, deer, badgers, ferrets, hedgehogs; there is no end to it, and he thinks of nothing else.
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At the moment, there are only about 300 known black-footed ferrets still alive in the United States, and "plague is a primary obstacle to black-footed ferret recovery," the assessment states.
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It often became a chance for him to bully everyday citizens, like the time when a Queens man phoned in to complain about a new city policy banning ferrets as domestic pets.
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When she ferrets out a rinky-dink drug ring operating out of the motel where she and her young son are staying, Brenda immediately takes over and turns the men into her underlings.
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An oral Sylvatic plague vaccine has already been developed and approved for prairie dogs and ferrets, and the USFWS suggests that drones will be able to deliver the vaccine at a significant scale.
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One conservation organization has proposed bolstering the ferrets' genetic diversity with the aid of ferret DNA that was cryopreserved in the 1980s from animals whose genes are not represented in the current population.
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On Wednesday, at a public hearing of the state's Fish and Game Commission, ferret owners argued in favor of a petition to allow special permits for ferrets that have been neutered and vaccinated.
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United's website currently states that service and emotional support animals can include dogs, miniature horses, monkeys, cats and birds, though rodents, reptiles, snakes and ferrets are not allowed in the cabin of the aircraft.
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From bowling alley gun fights to nihilistic bathtub ferrets, The Dude faces some harrowing obstacles on his heroic pursuit of a replacement rug—a number of which you really have to see to believe.
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In a lab at Dartmouth, scientists are experimenting with targeted injections of a modified rabies virus into the brains of ferrets—essentially allowing them to control how the animal responds to simple visual patterns.
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That means rats, possums, stoats, ferrets, and feral cats, all introduced from foreign countries and responsible for the deaths of millions of native birds each year, will have to go, Radio New Zealand reports.
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To assess whether the changes actually yield a virus that can be transmitted, they would like to test them in ferrets (which are often used as a model for studying flu transmission in humans).
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The new research was conducted in ferrets, which have been the best animal model for flu research since the virus was discovered in the 1930s, because they show the same symptoms as people do.
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In "Louisiana's Way Home," her cantankerous Granny ferrets Louisiana away from their Florida home in the middle of the night only to wind up on the side of the road with a major toothache.
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In "Billion Dollar Brand Club," the veteran business journalist Lawrence Ingrassia (a former editor at The New York Times) ferrets out the most compelling, consequential stories and people behind the direct-to-consumer revolution.
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Kelly Uhing of the City of Denver Parks and Recreation Department waits for a black-footed ferret to head into a prairie dog tunnel during a release of 30 black-footed ferrets on Oct.
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It was around the same time that Magionos, a cellist and former employee at Deloitte & Touche, joined the FBI as a forensic accounting specialist who makes sense of complex financial transactions and ferrets out fraud.
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A man who willingly puts young children in cages clearly possesses not a shred of empathy, so it is no wonder he hates dogs, and I would assume cats, hamsters, ferrets and bunnies as well.
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Animal rights advocates advise against keeping most wild animals in captivity, but that hasn't stopped exotic pet lovers from legally owning everything from ferrets and foxes to more dangerous beasts like alligators, bears, and tigers.
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For now, Jacob said that his colleagues and he are hoping to duplicate their study findings in ferrets, which are often used in influenza virus research, and they hope to secure funding for additional studies.
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Scientists have used a mutant influenza A virus to develop a vaccine that gave the immune systems of mice and ferrets a significant boost, according to the study published in the journal Science on Thursday.
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A spokesperson for the DOT added that airlines can refuse certain "unusual service animals" including snakes, reptiles, ferrets, rodents, and spiders, or if the animal's size or weight would pose a safety threat to passengers.
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Several studies (with foxes, feral cats, and ferrets) concluded that some culls can actually increase predator populations by giving young animals access to more resources like food and newly emptied territories, allowing future generations to thrive.
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When they waited until the ferrets developed a fever, about 24 hours, the fever didn't last as long as it did in animals who took a different medicine or had no treatment at all, Science reports.
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The Poisoned Pollinators Provision weakens important requirements under the ESA that address the toxic pesticides effects on threatened and endangered species including butterflies, bees and other sensitive pollinators, Pacific salmon and steelhead, black-footed ferrets and orca.
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While captive-raised ferrets are inoculated against the disease before being released into the wild, it's much harder to vaccinate prairie dogs, hence the drones, which disperse peanut-butter flavored vaccine pellets across the dogs' habitat from above.
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For the last 15 years, Dr. Tonie Rocke, a research scientist at the US Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center, has been working with other scientists to develop vaccines, including the one she hopes will save the ferrets.
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U.S. and Japanese researchers studied a sample of this new highly pathogenic strain to see how well it spread among mammals, including ferrets, which are considered the best animal model for testing the transmissibility of influenza in humans.
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"As a reminder, animals currently prohibited from traveling in the cabin include hedgehogs, ferrets, insects, rodents, snakes, spiders, reptiles, sugar gliders, non-household birds, exotic animals and animals not properly cleaned or carry a foul odor," said United.
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To test transmissibility, the team placed healthy ferrets next to infected animals and found the virus spread easily from cage to cage, suggesting the virus can be transmitted by respiratory droplets such as those produced by coughing and sneezing.
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"It's important that they showed a reduction in symptoms in ferrets, because it gets much closer to predicting what happens in people," Andrew Pavia, an infectious disease expert at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, tells Science.
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Ferrets are next, then possibly humans A challenge to possibly using frog mucus as a flu-fighting treatment in humans is figuring out how to get the urumin peptide to attach to flu virus cells in the human body, Jacob said.
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In addition, those of us with cat bosses, as well as people with house rabbits, ferrets, potbellied pigs and other neat denizens of the animal kingdom, might glean this theme from 34A, "Places where house pets 'go,'" or LITTER BOX.
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They tested this on ferrets, who had been vaccinated against the flu, and found the ones who contracted measles became less immune and had more severe symptoms when exposed to the flu infection, compared to the ones who didn't get measles.
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Previously, conversation dogs have successfully tracked the San Joaquin kit fox, gray wolves, cougars, bobcats, moose, river otters, American minks, black-footed ferrets and even the North Atlantic right whale, according to a new study published Wednesday in the Journal of Wildlife Management.
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All told, there's a tremendous appetite and an increasingly robust infrastructure for strong investigative journalism that ferrets out the most salacious secrets of Silicon Valley, from its invisible algorithms to its data-sharing partnerships to its cutthroat personalities to its backroom politics.
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Previously, the airline told people what they couldn't bring, in a list that grew as passengers tried to carry on an increasingly exotic menagerie: no hedgehogs or ferrets, no snakes, insects or rodents, and no sugar gliders, a nocturnal species of possums.
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But for many mammal species, including cats, rabbits, and ferrets, ovulation has to be induced, and this only happens when, during intercourse with a male member of the male species, stimulation causes hormonal surges in the body that result in an egg.
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He has a specific absurdist take on living in some modern digital hellworld where his boss doesn't let him kiss his ferrets at work, people keep asking him about fucking the Betsy Ross flag, and his candle budget is out of control.
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In 2011, an outcry arose when laboratories in Wisconsin and the Netherlands revealed that they were trying to mutate the lethal H5N1 bird flu in ways that would let it jump easily between ferrets, which are used to model human flu susceptibility.
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A variety of organizations — U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, World Wildlife Fund, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), National Wildlife Health Center, Model Avionics, and Support XXL — came together to develop the program, which is actually aimed at prairie dogs, the black-footed ferrets' primary food source.
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Originally thought to be a urban legend, the story was confirmed when a man was caught selling these oversized ferrets, also knows as "Brazilian rats," as toy poodles at a market, charging $150 for each pet, reports the Latin Times in a 2013 article.
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Going by the decidedly less exciting name of "sylvatic plague" when it infects prairie dogs and ferrets, the disease is spread by the ferret's food (those prairie dogs) and while some species of ferret are immune to the disease, the black-footed ferret is not.
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On the latest episode of the Future Perfect podcast, Vox's Byrd Pinkerton and I investigate some methods scientists are pondering to save the ferrets, from plague vaccines to using CRISPR to achieve plague resistance, and we debate whether all the effort is worth it.
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As a member of the mustelid clan — a noble but often misunderstood family of carnivorous mammals that includes ferrets, badgers, minks and wolverines — she holds to a slender, elongated body plan, the better to pursue prey through tight spaces that most carnivores can't penetrate.
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Although the neuroscientist discovered that dogs have twice as many neurons (brain cells) as cats, another study of a variety of species — ferrets, mongooses, raccoons, hyenas, lions and brown bears — published in late 2017 revealed that the science of animal smarts wasn't so cut and dry.
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There are "a few hundred" black-footed ferrets across 24 sites in North America, Moehring told me, but their survival relies heavily on the prairie dogs—an animal that, though it also faces threats like habitat loss and disease, has got a comparatively healthier population size.
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To search for such genetic commonalities, Dr Hu and his colleagues compared the DNA of the two pandas with that of four other members of the Carnivora: polar bears (close relatives of giant pandas), ferrets (close relatives of red pandas), and tigers and dogs (close relatives of neither).
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The Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge was forced to undergo a temporary closure as a "precautionary measure" last month while it worked to address the issue affecting colonies of black-tailed prairie dogs and endangered black-footed ferrets dependent on them for shelter and food, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service said Saturday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain warned owners of cats, dogs and ferrets that if it failed to secure a divorce deal with the European Union then their animals might have to get rabies jabs and discuss travel with vets months before traveling on holiday to the EU. In the worst case scenario for pets owners, dogs, cats and ferrets might need health certificates, to have rabies jabs and travel plans would have to be discussed with a vet at least four months in advance before traveling to the EU. That would mean someone wanting to take their pet to the EU on March 30, 2019, the day after Britain leaves the bloc, would have to discuss the trip with a vet before the end of November.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain warned owners of cats, dogs and ferrets that if it failed to secure a divorce deal with the European Union then their animals might have to get rabies jabs and discuss travel with vets months before travelling on holiday to the EU. In the worst case scenario for pets owners, dogs, cats and ferrets might need health certificates, to have rabies jabs and travel plans would have to be discussed with a vet at least four months in advance before travelling to the EU. That would mean someone wanting to take their pet to the EU on March 30, 2019, the day after Britain leaves the bloc, would have to discuss the trip with a vet before the end of November.
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As for which types of pets are eligible to cuddle up with the Easter Bunny, according to PetSmart's store policy, domestic dogs and cats, as well as birds, rabbits, ferrets, pot-bellied pigs, and numerous small animals and reptiles, are permitted in PetSmart stores, so long as they're properly vaccinated and leashed or safely contained.
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In case that statement wasn't clear enough to some people, JetBlue listed some of the animals it will not allow on board, including hedgehogs, ferrets, sugar gliders (a type of possum that's illegal to own in five states), anything with tusks (so, no emotional support elephants), birds of prey, and, of course, spiders and snakes.
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In its statement on Tuesday, Southwest noted that psychiatric-service animals, those trained to help people with a mental disability, will still be permitted but said it will only allow dogs, cats and miniature horses in this category while "unusual or exotic animals" such as rodents, ferrets, insects, spiders, reptiles, hedgehogs, rabbits, or sugar gliders will not be accepted.
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With a keen eye for colorful detail, Dray narrates the elaborate rituals of the English hunting tradition, and samples its rich vocabulary, from "nouns of assembly" ("a sloth of bears" or "a business of ferrets") to nomenclature (a six-year-old stag that evades a king or queen is dubbed "a hart royal proclaimed") to flowery euphemisms for different kinds of scat.
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"For the purpose of preserving cabin safety for the greater traveling public, Ravn Alaska prohibits all rodents, ferrets, reptiles, snakes, insects or any type of venomous or poisonous creature from being used as an emotional support animal" Ravn Alaska spokesperson William Walsh wrote in an statement While, as a state, Alaska doesn't have much experience with snakes, the reptile plagued crew of flight 7133 handled the incident like pros, landing the plane in Anchorage on time with all humans and snakes unharmed.
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Here's the full list of prohibited animals: Amphibians Animals improperly cleaned and/or with a foul odor Animals with tusks, horns, or hooves Ferrets Goats Hedgehogs Insects Non-household birds (birds of prey, farm poultry, game birds, waterfowl) Reptiles Rodents Snakes Spiders Sugar gliders You're good to fly on this budget airline as long as the proper paperwork is filled out for your animal, and the passenger has a mental or emotional health-related disability from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fourth Edition (or DSM IV).
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