Small mammal trap placement requires hours of deep thought.
Setting the traps.
Field Trip #1: Dr. Derting's House
| Small mammal trap placement requires hours of deep thought. |
Setting the traps. |
 Vegetation samping. |
 It is important to keep a field notebook and a journal of every field experience, and to wear funny things on your head. |
 Checking traps, and bringing back animals for the rest of the class. |
 Dr. Derting teaches us how to identify,weigh, measure, sex, and tag small mammals. |
 "Sex?" |
 Some of these "small mammals" weren't so easy to measure. |
 Which one of these is the wild animal!? |
Field Experiences at Terrapin Creek
Roxie after checking traps in the swamp all
night.  |
 Procyon lotor or common raccoon. |
Field Trip to the Ozarks of Missouri!
 Peromyscus megalotis or Texas Mouse |
 Neotoma floridana or Eastern Woodrat |
 Some of the trapped animals wouldn't leave when released! |
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