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Mustela nigripes 2🦡

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SpeciesCarnivoraMustelidae
Carnivores

🦡Black-footed ferret

Mustela nigripes (Audubon & Bachman, 1851)

ابن مقرض أسود الأقدام (الاسم العلمي: Mustela nigripes) (الإنجليزية: Black-footed Ferret) هو نوع من الحيوانات يتبع جنس ابن عرس من فصيلة العرسيات.

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≈ 1/68th of your weight
Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2015.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.91 kg
Body length
0.43 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
12 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Black-footed ferret

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.91 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1.02 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.43 m
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Brain mass
8.81 g
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Maximum lifespan
12 years
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  • 9.4 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
4.1 years
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Age at maturity
1.0 years
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Gestation
43 days
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  • 43 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 3
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 3AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Carnivore
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Activity cycle
Nocturnal
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Home range
0.83 km²
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Population density
2 per km²
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Volume l
0.9 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Black-footed ferret yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCarnivora
  5. ›familyMustelidae
  6. ›genusMustela
  7. ›speciesMustela nigripes
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  3. suborderCaniformia
  4. familyMustelidae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  12. suborderCaniformia
  13. familyMustelidae
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Schwarzfußiltis (de), Mustela nigripes (es), Putois à pieds noirs (fr), tchórz czarnołapy (pl), 검은발족제비 (ko), feketelábú görény (hu) … and 22 more languages

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