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Supposedly extinct kangaroo rat resurfaces after 30 years
Science Mag ^
| 4/30/18
| Elizabeth Pennisi
Posted on 05/06/2018 2:09:43 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: centurion316
Hate to tell you this, but back in the 70's my father showed me a dead kangaroo rat in Carson, CA (NOWHERE NEAR THEIR HABITAT ZONE) that apparently died inside a garage. I saw it with my own eyes and it looked identical to that shown in the article.
These critters are probably scattered throughout southern areas of California, BEYOND THAT WHICH RESEARCHERS DISCUSS HERE.
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posted on
05/06/2018 2:47:10 PM PDT
by
CivilWarBrewing
(Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
To: Rebelbase
The vector is the Norway rat
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posted on
05/06/2018 2:53:15 PM PDT
by
Thibodeaux
(Long Live the Republic!)
To: Libloather
Surprisingly cute critters...
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posted on
05/06/2018 2:58:39 PM PDT
by
Neidermeyer
(Show me a peaceful Muslim and I will show you a heretic to the Koran.)
To: Libloather
History shows again and again
How nature points up the folly of man
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posted on
05/06/2018 3:00:11 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
To: CivilWarBrewing
It doesn’t count. You are not a scientist and your discovery was not published in an academic publication. Besides, it was dead, wasn’t it? There you go, you probably saw the very last one. Scientists are very smart, you know.
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posted on
05/06/2018 3:04:02 PM PDT
by
centurion316
(Back from exile from 4/2016 until 4/2018.)
To: All
So biologists couldn't believe their eyes when not one, but four San Quintin kangaroo rats (Dipodomys gravipes) hopped into their survey traps in 2017. There were only four left. Now they're extinct!
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posted on
05/06/2018 3:05:49 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
To: Mastador1
What you describe has nothing to do with Kangaroo Rats, the government was using them to harass people who were interfering with their political scheme. They clearly weren’t looking for the little critters, they haven’t been seen since 1967.
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posted on
05/06/2018 3:11:32 PM PDT
by
centurion316
(Back from exile from 4/2016 until 4/2018.)
To: Libloather
But...but...but, I thought the San Quintin kangaroo rat science was settled.
Maybe they need more grant money...
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posted on
05/06/2018 3:15:34 PM PDT
by
glasseye
("24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." ~ H. L. Mencken)
To: centurion316
Only if a federal judge in Hawaii okays it.
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posted on
05/06/2018 3:16:22 PM PDT
by
glasseye
("24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." ~ H. L. Mencken)
To: Libloather
The biologists couldn’t find the rats but apparently the rats found each other.
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posted on
05/06/2018 3:25:15 PM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(The FBI is the Mob)
To: Libloather
Ah, the humility of scientists!
If we didn’t see it, it didn’t happen!
Kinda like the old, “There are no mountain lions in Western North Carolina...
Yea, right...
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posted on
05/06/2018 3:31:28 PM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
To: Libloather
A San Quentin rat? What was he in for?
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posted on
05/06/2018 3:32:52 PM PDT
by
TBP
(Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
To: Libloather
They weren’t even remotely extinct, Elvis just had them all rounded them all up for his petting zoo. This one must have hopped over the hop-proof fence.
To: Libloather; LUV W; Kathy in Alaska
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posted on
05/06/2018 3:37:05 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country)
To: Thibodeaux
There are periodic plague outbreaks in rural areas of AZ and NM. It’s a desert species that causes it there.
To: Libloather
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posted on
05/06/2018 3:38:40 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Mastador1
Are you kidding? What do you call the government halting private industry, the use of private land by its owners and the confiscation of private land to protect a basically useless creature? They did that in Mexico?
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posted on
05/06/2018 3:43:52 PM PDT
by
Hugin
(Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
To: EinNYC
When I was a kid, I used to get the gerbil and the jerboa (African/Asian kangaroo rat) mixed up, by the name.
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posted on
05/06/2018 3:48:13 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Libloather
Paging Shawn Woods.
Check out his YouTube channel, he has an interesting way to get around the censors with his Mouse Trap videos.
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posted on
05/06/2018 3:50:35 PM PDT
by
Mark was here
(Fake news = "Hands up ... Dont shoot")
To: Libloather
.
Supposed by whom?
Some ignorant, selfimportant snake kisser?
.
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posted on
05/06/2018 3:53:07 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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