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Leaping Foxes

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We call it a “mouse gradation year” I was not able to find a catchy English term for “gradation year” – it’s what happens when a certain species showing population cycles reaches a peak year. If however you are a larger “mouse”-like rodent you are a rat. No “gophers” etc.

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Wildlife Rehabber Misidentification

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And once I took in three pit bull puppies that turned out to be squirrels.”. “I I got a sewer rat a lady thought was a baby opossum,” chimed in Charis Palmer. “A Occasionally finders mistake not just species, but entire classes. “We A young girl showed up on my doorstep one night with a ‘baby hawk,’” told Maren Scott. “She

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