Over the past century the grasslands of northern Mexico have been taken over by shrubby mesquite and turned to desert. Ecologist Gerardo Ceballos is on a mission to turn them back. Can he restore an entire prairie ecosystem? Ceballos hopes he can, with the help of an unlikely ally. Ari Daniel Shapiro reports from Chihuahua. Podcast transcript Image Credit: Arthur Chapman, Flickr: EOL Images. CC BY-NC-SA read moreDuration: 5:28Published: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:17:45 +0000
Ring-tailed Lemur (Lemur catta) in captivity at the Melbourne Zoo, Victoria, Australia. Photographed on 23 April 2014.Native of the Madagascar. The image shows mutual grooming behaviour.www.inaturalist.org/observations/47470871
The Degu is a small caviomorph rodent that is endemic to central Chile. It is sometimes referred to as the Brush-tailed rat, and is also called the Common Degu.www.degus.com/deguz.html