Black footed ferrets to make comeback in Wyoming
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Abstract
Following a bit of ferret carnival at a school in Meeteetse, biologists plan to release 35 black-footed ferrets raised in captivity on two local ranches. The release will complete the circle of a story that began in 1981, when a ranch dog named Shep brought home a dead black-footed ferret and let the world know the species wasn't extinct after all. Wild black-footed ferrets are set to make a triumphant return in Wyoming.In Meeteetse, (me-TEET-see) Wyoming, the ferrets are a constant throughout the town -- they're on the coffee mugs of a downtown restaurant, in a bronze sculpture, and they even appear in the town's logo.After a small ferret carnival at a school in town, biologists have released 35 black-footed ferrets raised in captivity on two local ranches.The release completes a story that started in 1981, when a ranch dog named Shep brought home a dead black-footed ferret, revealing the species wasn't extinct after all.Five years later, biologists captured the area's remaining wild ferrets for a successful captive-breeding program that since the 1990s has released hundreds of ferrets.The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service breeds black-footed ferrets at a facility near Fort Collins, Colorado, and put the young ferrets through a "boot camp" where they learn how to catch prairie dogs.Ferrets have been released at 24 different sites in Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, South Dakota, Arizona and Kansas, as well as Canada and Mexico.This will be the first ferret release in Wyoming in almost 10 years.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.584 | 0.014 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".