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Black-footed ferrets have large appetites

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Despite their relatively small body size, Black-Footed Ferrets eat large quantities of food due to their high metabolic rate.

A single ferret will often eat around 100 prairie dogs a year and supplement this dietary mainstay with mice, rats, ground squirrels, rabbits, birds, and occasionally reptiles and insects, too.


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