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Eastern gray squirrel eats a nut on a tree

Environment

Carolina Curious: Kids ask 'Why do we only have silly gray squirrels in NC?'

5:10pm May 30, 2024

Sixth graders at Thomas Jefferson Middle School in Winston-Salem are curious about squirrels, birds, bugs and more. In the latest installment of Carolina Curious, WFDD’s Amy Diaz sat down with Falyn Owens with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission to find the answers.

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Black-footed ferrets are the most endangered mammal in North America. Scientists in Montana are trying to save the ferrets by saving their main food source, prairie dogs.

National
Science

Biologists With Drones And Peanut Butter Pellets Are On A Mission To Help Ferrets

5:42am December 10, 2017

by Nate Hegyi

To increase populations of the endangered black-footed ferret, scientists aim to save prairie dogs, a main food source. The biologists use drones and medicated peanut butter-flavored pellets to do it.