FRESNO, Calif. -- Scientists plan to use satellite photos to count Giant Kangaroo Rats, the first-ever monitoring of an endangered species from outer space. Scientists will examine images taken from ...
In 2019, cameras set up by wildlife photographer and researcher Ken Hickman in the Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve, a sprawling, 19,000-acre tract of wilderness in the Santa Cruz Mountains, captured ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The Stephens’ kangaroo rat, native to Riverside and San Diego counties, ...
For decades, an imperiled rodent was thought to exist only in a tiny pocket of sandhills in Henry Cowell State Park in Santa Cruz County – and nowhere else on Earth. But scientists have spotted new ...
Scientists will examine images taken from the same satellite used by Israeli defense forces to find the circular patches of earth denuded by the rats as they gather food around their burrows. From ...
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Scientists plan to use satellite photos to count Giant Kangaroo Rats, the first-ever monitoring of an endangered species from outer space. Scientists will examine images taken ...
Scientists will examine images taken from the same satellite used by Israeli defense forces to find the circular patches of earth denuded by the rats as they gather food around their burrows. From ...
The first giant kangaroo rat I saw was fluffy and round, with cartoonishly large eyes. It looked like something that might be big in Japan. It was also long dead—stuffed, mounted, and stuck ...