Offspring And Maternal Care

Female hyenas isolate before whelping and speed up to five hours/night  attending small cubs during two visits to natal den. After cubs start eating soild food at three months mother brings them to communal den whitch may be in continuous use for several years thereafter attends cubs only once a night. Juveniles older than eight months are left unattded for two to three nights.

The black-footed ferret

Black- footed ferrets are nocturnal and primarly hunt for sleeping prairie dogs in their burrows. Though they will also eat mice and other small mammals, birds, and insects, a single black- footed ferret eats about 100 prairie dogs a year and cannot survive without access to large colonies of them. In the wild, black-footed ferrets spend about 99 percent of their time underground. Ferret mating seasons last from March-April. The number of kits born ranges from one to seven  but most commonly only three or four are born.

Other Color Variations

Other rare color morphs of the species include speckles, melanism, albinism and gray coloration.Most have been reported in Indian cheetahs, particularly in captive specimens kept for hunting.