Humans and their Environments
Animals and their biotic environment: Liomys salvini mice
Lecture 1518 Oct 2022
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JanzenLiomys1986.pdf
Janzen_etal1990Lonchocarpus.pdf
BellJanzen_L-Dopa.pdf
Liomys mouse
the whole mouse
Liomys in the field
a real Liomys photograph
full Monty
rodent, cheek pouches
cheek pouches
full pouches
pocket contents
one full pocket content
seed source
seed variety
insects as food
tunnel system
seed cache
nest and seeds
growing beansprouts
germinating a seed
germinating seed diet
hard seed diet
seed notching genes
seed cafeteria trials
seed cafeteria
ugh, seed cafeteria
rejected seeds
starvation rather than eat
Lonchocarpus toxicity
Liomys as seed predators
Enterolobium adult
Enterolobium fruit crop
Enterolobium fruit/seeds
Liomys and Enterolobium
mouse capacity
dung
one horse dump bowl
horse dump dumped
dung beetle activity
??
elephant dump in pasture
elephant dump in forest
washing out seeds
visual results
numerical results
cow dung?
horse dung?
the real world
seed miscellany
Liomys demography
two plots
live trapping
Sherman live trap
field crew
marking mice
how to mark a mouse
mouse tatoo
tattooed mouse
population density
owls
owl pellet
cats
snakes
snakes
where they are?
what does trapping say?
what does trapping say?
dry-wet contrast
dry-wet contrast