Revenge of the Kangaroo Rat, guest blog by Chris Laning

 

As I've mentioned in previous guest columns, as a college student I volunteered as part of the staff of the campus museum. The professor who ran it was a zoologist, and anyone who volunteered there picked up a fair amount of knowledge about small furry animals just by hanging around. We also had the opportunity to go along on collecting trips, and there was often one scheduled for the week of spring vacation.

One year a couple of dozen of us piled into the college vans and took off for a...