Trent Botkin se dedica a buscarle nuevas casas a los Prairie Dogs.
Having prairie dogs on your land is a very rewarding experience. Besides giving you the opportunity to watch their hilarious antics, their presence attracts hawks, eagles, burrowing owls, other rodents, coyotes, badgers...
Having prairie dogs on your land is a very rewarding experience. Besides giving you the opportunity to watch their hilarious antics, their presence attracts hawks, eagles, burrowing owls, other rodents, coyotes, badgers...
I think it's a worthwhile task. Many of the people in Santa Fe view this field as some sort of animal-rights issue, that the prairie dogs have the right to live because they were here first, aside from their cuteness. But I view it from an ecological conservation standpoint, as the Gunnison's prairie dog has lost 95 percent of its habitat over the past 150 years.
Pueden leer más sobre su trabajo en la entrevista que le hicieron acá. Me recordó la trama de Poltergeist (de 1982, el año en que nací) y de Sus ojos son fuego, de Soltero. También me recordó el reportaje de Joshua Bearman, Rodent disaster in Xinjiang... Cuando le conté a mi madre sobre Botkin, me reveló que un tío se entretenía vertiendo gasolina o agua caliente en la madriguera de las ratas, en el solar de mi abuelo. Reía cuando veía cómo escapaban por otro agujero.
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