This page was designed to give you an idea of some of the cool things ferrets can do.
Ferrets use their long bodies for many different things. The main thing they use their slender bodies for is getting into the burrows of their prey. The ferret is nocturnal and usually hunts in the night. Since it can't see very well it uses its whiskers to judge which holes it can fit into. When a ferret comes to a hole, it feels how wide the hole is with its whiskers, if its whiskers bend back then the ferret knows that it won1t be able to fit in the burrow because their whiskers are as long as the widest part of their body. If they can fit into the hole they are able to move quickly by whipping their bodies around through the narrow passageways and slithering almost like a snake. Some other adaptations of ferrets are their defense mechanisms; all ferrets have a foul smelling fluid that is embedded in their fur, this keeps many animals away, and ferrets also make sounds such as high pitched screeches and grumbles to warn predators not to mess with them.