Behavioral Ecology Blog

Hi All, Still smiling after a high today of 112! Hot. Things are going well- expanding the areas in which I am trapping, so more individual animals. Looking forward to seeing my beautiful wife and kids in just 2 days! I can’t wait.

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There is a water hole way back in the canyon. So nice-a flowing stream, little waterfall and lots of wildlife. I took a hike up there this morning- saw 4 bighorn sheep, the frogs, coyote, a big palm grove- all supported by the most valuable commodity on the desert- water.

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Here I am sitting in a hole we dug to try to recover a lost transmitter. Up a very steep hill surrounded by cactus. I can locate the transmitter to about 1m^3, but that I am finding is a tremendous about of dirt and rock to excavate. I haven’t found it quite yet. [...]

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Just a FYI for those that might be interested. You can get monitor the blog via ATOM/RSS if you like. If you don’t know what I’m talking about- See Wikipedia for an explanation. It’s a really helpful way of monitoring changes in web content automatically.

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This little guy was by the nextdoor neighbors door- A cool fact about scorpions- they fluoresce under black light. This guy- blue.

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The building you see in the center of the photo are the reserve Buildings.
Just an update: Tomorrow AM we will attach the telemetry collars to the mice and switch from trapping in Grid 1 to Grid 2. A big pain in the butt to move all 150+ traps to the other side of the [...]

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This guy snuck in a few days ago- and I can’t see to get him out. He’s just too fast for me to catch. I’ve been laying out water and some apple for him to munch on.
EDIT: 6/6/06- Lizard Evicted. Refused to pay rent.

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