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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe ecology of Lyme borreliosis is complex in northwestern California, with several potential reservoir hosts, tick vectors, and genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato. The primary objective of this study was to...
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From:The Kenyon Review (Vol. 30, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed1. The squirrels across the river in Illinois were coal black. They had bushy black tails, dark darty heads. In bright sun the fur gleamed: public parks overrun by mink stoles! On overcast days these noir nut-buriers...
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From:Ecology (Vol. 76, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDifferences among conspecifics in body mass result from underlying differences in structural size and physiological condition. To determine whether the structural or physiological component of body mass has a stronger...
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From:Canadian Journal of Zoology (Vol. 86, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Female Columbian ground squirrels (Spermophilus columbianus (Ord, 1815)) sometimes emit a repetitive vocalization after copulation. We examined two possible explanations for why sexual selection would favor...
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From:Journal of the Idaho Academy of Science (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHabitats for ground squirrels and other species associated with native grasslands and shrub-steppe environments in western North America have declined precipitously in the last several decades. These losses have been...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 49, Issue 20)Byline: MEGAN ROONEY An unusual critter is driving students a little squirrelly. It all began after a rare albino squirrel was spotted at the University of Texas at Austin in April 2001. Students went nuts over the...
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From:Science Scope (Vol. 42, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedSquirrel Mapper is presented by the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and is supported by the National Science Foundation. The goal of Squirrel Mapper is to engage students in...
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From:Southwestern Naturalist (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWe evaluated Ictidomys tridecemlineatus for sexual dimorphism by taking 40 skeletal measurements from 267 specimens from Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. We compared measurements from males and females using...
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From:The American Midland Naturalist (Vol. 136, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedStudies of small mammals often use live traps, but the effect of different trapping heights on capture effectiveness of arboreal mammals has not been directly addressed. We compared the capture success of three trap...
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From:Nature (Vol. 539, Issue 7629) Peer-ReviewedTwo species of bacteria that cause leprosy have been found in red squirrels in Britain and Ireland -- a surprising discovery because only primates and armadillos were thought to get the disease. [illus. 1] Stewart...
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From:Ecological Monographs (Vol. 67, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDuring a mark-recapture study of Townsend's ground squirrels (Spermophilus townsendii) on 20 sites in the Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area, Idaho, in 1991 through 1994, 4407 animals were marked in 17...
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From:Ecology (Vol. 76, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedWe studied the evolution of litter size in natural and experimentally manipulated populations of Columbian ground squirrels (Spermophilus columbianus) in eastern Washington state and southwest Alberta. Litter size at...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhile an array of taxa are capable of producing fluorescent pigments, fluorescence in mammals is a novel and poorly understood phenomenon. A first step towards understanding the potential adaptive functions of...
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From:The American Biology Teacher (Vol. 74, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedWe developed an exercise for a university-level ecology class that teaches hypothesis testing by examining acorn preferences and caching behavior of tree squirrels (Sciurus spp.). This exercise is easily modified to...
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From:Ecology (Vol. 81, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedDOMINIQUE BERTEAUX [1] Abstract. Although natal dispersal has received considerable attention from animal ecologists, the causes and consequences of breeding dispersal have remained largely unexplored. We used...
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From:Wildlife Biology (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTranslocating European ground squirrels Spermophilus citellus has become a popular conservation tool. However, few release techniques have been carefully evaluated. To contribute to an evidence-based ground squirrel...
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From:Journal of the Idaho Academy of Science (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedKey words: ground squirrel, Wildlife Services, wildlife damage management, damage control, rodenticides. INTRODUCTION Ground squirrel damage management, or control, is defined as the alleviation of damage or other...
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From:Science (Vol. 299, Issue 5610) Peer-ReviewedWild yet cosmopolitan, squirrels are a diverse bunch. Ranging in size from just 15 grants to 7.5 kilograms, they and their relatives are adapted to many settings. Some are ground based and some live in trees; a few even...
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From:The American Midland Naturalist (Vol. 162, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPopulations at the edge of their geographic range may demonstrate different population dynamics from central populations. Endangered Mt. Graham red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus grahamensis), endemic to...
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From:Southwestern Naturalist (Vol. 65, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedAlthough melanism is common in some species of North American squirrels, its occurrence in the California ground squirrel (Otospermophilus beecheyi) was only anecdotal and reported in the early 20th century. Here we...