Ferret Adaptation and Defense Page!

	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.



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