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| This is a close look at the non-human world through the medium of a single species, a single species with which I examine a number of different processes, some of which we have already touched generally in lectures about processes, and others that will appear in future lectures about communities or processes. A series of stories like this could be told about just about any species in the world, if someone(s) has looked at it intensively and broadly enough. I chose this mouse - Liomys salvini in the Heteromyidae, the kangaroo rat family - because my wife Winnie Hallwachs and I have been studying its biology in a tropical dry forest that we know well - the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica - for more than two decades. This means that it is easy and comfortable to describe, discuss, analyze and relate to other processes around us. | ||
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