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Black footed ferret breeding center

This is the best view of the area that visitors get.

Black footed ferret breeding center
Arizona Docent, 14 Mar 2011
    • Arizona Docent
      This is the best view of the area that visitors get.
      14 Mar 2011
    • Meaghan Edwards
      Nice to see more zoos taking on little guys!
      14 Mar 2011
    • Ituri
      This is just the new facility. The Phoenix Zoo has been breeding black-footed ferrets for 19 years!
      14 Mar 2011
    • Blackduiker
      I don't recall seeing this on my trip there in April of 2010. Of course, the memory isn't what it use to be.
      21 Apr 2011
    • Ituri
      This opened in November of 2010.
      New black-footed ferret breeding center dedicated at the Phoenix Zoo - Phoenix Nature | Examiner.com
      21 Apr 2011
    • Arizona Docent
      It is behind the conservation center (which is also closed to the public, but has windows you can look in). All you can see is the part shown in this photo, which you can see by looking past two sets of closed gates in the center section of the conservation center.

      If you still cannot picture it, the conservation center is between the cheetahs and the walk-in monkey area.
      21 Apr 2011
    • DavidBrown
      @AZDocent: do you know if any of these ferrets are actually released in Arizona? Actually does Arizona have prairie dog colonies to release them into?

      Seeing a wild black-footed ferret is on my wildlife list of things to do.
      28 Sep 2011
    • Arizona Docent
      @DAVID Brown - yes.

      They are strictly nocturnal, though, so seeing one in the wild requires spotlighting and would likely require special permission to be on the preserve at night.
      28 Sep 2011
    • Ituri
      Black-footed ferrets have been released in a colony of Gunnison's prairie-dogs near Seligman, AZ. The Phoenix Zoo does an annual spotlighting survey, you could look into volunteering for that.
      28 Sep 2011
    • DavidBrown
      Cool. Thanks Ituri and AZDocent for the info. Sounds like a good way to see a ferret.
      28 Sep 2011
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