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Article: Preferential Burrow entrance placement in the Dulzura kangaroo rat, Dipodomys simulans.
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- Bulletin (Southern California Academy of Sciences)
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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Abstract.--This study examined burrow location preferences in the Dulzura kangaroo rat, Dipodomys simulans. Burrow entrances known to be occupied by individual kangaroo rats on two experimental sites were identified and the distances to the nearest shrub were determined. These data were then compared to a distribution of random points delineated on those same plots to test whether this species appears to have a spatial preference for burrow placement in relation to vegetative cover. The results suggest that this species prefers to locate its burrow entrances in the open, but within 2 m of vegetative cover.
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