Science, Maths & Technology
Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology
...researcher visits once or twice a day. Woodland mammals, such as mice, voles, squirrels and stoats, are collected in traps that close upon the animal when they enter it (bedding and food must be available while the mammal remains trapped because recording should never be allowed to affect the size of the population). Numbers of relatively sedentary animals (such as snails...