Critically Endangered Black-Footed Ferrets‘ Paternity Test Results Are In – CMZoo https://www.cmzoo.org/news/archive/critically-endangered-black-footed-ferrets-paternity-test-results-are-in/
This summer, the black-footed ferret (BFF) breeding program at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo saw a record number of kits born: 37. Conservationists tested multi-partner breeding to see if females could conceive and whelp kits from different dads in the same litter, and to see if having multiple breeding partners impacted the number of kits born overall. . . .
number of kits one female could contribute to the recovery population.� BFFs have