Courtesy of Parks Canada

Many people, I’m given to understand, find a rhesus macaque in a double-breasted coat at a furniture store to be a charming sight, but for stylishness in a non-human I will take the rare black-footed ferret on its native prairie any day.

I cannot claim, however, that I held this opinion before a few hours ago, when a polite Parks Canada employee called to alert me to the fact that Maclean’s had mistakenly included North America’s only native ferret on a blog list of extinct species. As we were all thrilled to learn, not so!

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