A badger staring down the annoying biologists that are doing a point count survey too close for its liking.

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Did some data backups today and looked through some of my old master’s thesis images for the first time in a while. Species are long-tailed weasel, hispid pocket mouse, southern plains woodrat, and northern grasshopper mouse.

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Figured I’d get a first post out of the way. This is a freshly reintroduced black-footed ferret that I photographed in South Dakota. They are obligate predators of prairie dogs and were once thought extinct.

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