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Ferrets
Latin name: Mustela putorius furo
Size: Nose to tip of tail approx 50cm.
Distribution: Rarely found, but occasionally domesticated ferrets escape to
the wild.
Food: Ferrets are carnivorous and in the wild it's likely their diet
would consist of mice, voles and rabbits.
Special features: Ferrets are not established in the wild in the UK, but
escaped pet ferrets do sometimes show up, and these could be confused with other
mustelids such as polecats, stoats
or mink.
They have a long, slender body and the fur can be coloured; silver, albino, black, dark-eyed white, cinnamon, chocolate, or more commonly, sable.
Ferrets were probably domesticated from European
Polecats over 2000 years ago.
UK Safari Mammal Section
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