Patrick Brannon, Outreach Education Specialist and Naturalist, Highlands Biological Station, Western Carolina University
Shrews and other small mammals are frequently entrapped in bottles discarded along our highways. Skeletal remains removed from bottles can yield a wealth of data including the geographic distribution of individual species and the effects of littering on wildlife populations. Join us to learn about shrews and rodents, how bottles can be a conservation threat, and various applications of using this method to study small mammals.
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