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for the Western Gray Squirrel Project
This page has updates for citizen science volunteers working on the western gray squirrel project.
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Experiment to find the optimum tube size
Intern Hannah Edwards is working on an experiment to compare different lengths and widths of sampling tubes. We suspect that longer tubes may hamper access to the bait, stimulating squirrels to gnaw the tubes. Initial results from several experimental set-ups seem to bear this out, but they haven't answered the converse question, which is that if long tubes don't perform as well, do shorter tubes perform better?
In this experiment, we also set up a remote camera at one of the tube stations. What we got was nothing short of amazing.
Check out our other western gray squirrel videos here!
Downloadable Forms
Gray squirrel survey protocol.
Gray squirrel hair tube survey data sheet. This was revised on June 22.
Gray squirrel observation form.
Gray squirrel nest observation form.
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