Jenny Ward Angyal

By Jenny Ward AngyalGibsonville, North Carolina, USA Dark-eyed and playful, childlike but childless, Elizabeth Ann needs an emergency hysterectomy or she will die. Her lithe young body recovers quickly from the surgery.  It’s hard to know if she grieves—but her caregivers do.  Elizabeth Ann is a Black-footed Ferret, cloned from the frozen tissues of a Ferret named Willa, who died more than 30 years ago.  The few hundred Ferrets living wild today are all descendants of just seven taken from a Wyoming ranch in a desperate attempt to save them from extinction.  They’re inbred and threatened by disease. Ferrets eat…