Woodrats can't stomach favorite foods at high temps
Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 10:02
in Biology & Nature
You'd think desert woodrats already had a lot of adversity. Besides the constant threat of coyotes and other predators and the scorching Mojave Desert heat, their primary source of food is the creosote bush, or chaparral - a plant so toxic that few other animals will even go near it.