I thought I might post a youtube video of the northern flying squirrel for my readers. Little did I know I would stumble upon this gem of a video. This is as close as you can get to understanding what I did out there.
I kept thinking, "Wow. This is exactly what we did. Wow. They're talking about the subspecies I'm studying. Wow. They just mentioned the NCWRC (who I worked with)...& there's a comment below about the squirrels crossing the Cherohala (my study area)." But I don't think it was filmed on the NC side of the Cherohala because there wasn't a tunnel on the road we took. It might've been filmed on the TN side.
So yeah, that's part of what I did out in the field. And when she was complaining about the poop--I would've been collected it in a vial for later DNA analyses. We also set traps along traplines that we checked every morning & I did vegetation surveys in 10x10m plots around every place we found/trapped a squirrel & random plots corresponding to the known squirrel points.
Anyway, not sure why I'm blogging about it when I should be writing about it in my thesis.
Later gators! Enjoy the video below!
To answer your question from a few days ago: Yes, we are absolutely going to find out the sex of the baby. I am too much of a planner to wait that out and just "see" what happens. NO WAY!!
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