About the Authors

Rachel M. Santymire

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rsantymire@lpzoo.org

Affiliation Conservation and Science Department, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Shana R. Lavin

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Animals, Science, and Environment, Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Orlando, Florida, United States of America.

Affiliation Conservation and Science Department, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Heather Branvold-Faber

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Southside Animal Hospital, Anchorage, Alaska, United States of America.

Affiliation United States Fish and Wildlife Service, National Black Footed Ferret Conservation Center, Carr, Colorado, United States of America

Julie Kreeger

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Bovey, Minnesota, United States of America.

Affiliation United States Fish and Wildlife Service, National Black Footed Ferret Conservation Center, Carr, Colorado, United States of America

Judy Che-Castaldo

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Conservation and Science Department, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Michelle Rafacz

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.

Affiliation Conservation and Science Department, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Paul Marinari

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations United States Fish and Wildlife Service, National Black Footed Ferret Conservation Center, Carr, Colorado, United States of America, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.