Why did the Woodchuck Cross the Road?
Maybe the better question is can it cross enough times to survive and produce more woodchucks? Source-sink dynamics and the mystery of urban woodchucks.
The kids in the after-school gardening club didn’t know what they had seen in the vacant lot near the 46th Street El station in West Philadelphia (which we had passed on our way to look for brown snakes), but they were adamant that it was big - bigger than a mouse, bigger than a rat, and bigger than a squirrel. I ran through the mesofauna that came to m…
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