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Didn't even notice it when we pulled up to the Prairie Dogs because we were watching them. Then I spotted it standing right besides the car, I didn't know what it was doing just standing there but after a minute or two it started coming towards us. It then grabbed a dead Prairie Dog and ran to its burrow in the PDog town.

*this is the smallest wild dog in North America, weighing less than 5 pounds

The specimen was trapped and released as part of the Steens Mountain Resurvey Project, Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University. Measurements were taken and diagnostic traits observed during sampling.

There had been a question, relevant to a research proposal, as to how to provision a pika w water. So went w the simple approach, using a water bottle designed for small mammal pets. This pika drank from it w/in 24 hrs of deployment

I'm putting this out there for evaluation by others. An experienced Spotted Owl / vole person thought this was probably a Red Tree Vole nest, a small one probably of a lone male. Didn't look like a bird nest to me because of placement on limb.