Critter Blogs

Shellyane Bryan is a third year student studying English Literature and Creative Writing at Staffordshire University. She has a love for small animals, especially those of the rat and hamster variety. Learn all about Dumbo The Rat and Mouse The Rat, with occasional cameos by Leon The Hamster.

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Catya is a high school senior from Southern California. Catya is a judge with the California Hamster Association. She is also a harpist and an amateur fencer.

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Travis Livieri is executive director of Prairie Wildlife Research and holds BS and MS degrees in wildlife management. He has worked on the North American prairies for 13 years to restore the endangered black-footed ferret.

Sylvatic plague has reached the Conata Basin, an area of South Dakota that was a previous safe haven for black-footed ferrets and one of the most successful sites for reintroducing the endangered black-footed ferret into the wild. Travis Livieri is one of the people working to save the black-footed ferrets, also known as BFFs.

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