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Hi Nikki, Speaking as a mammalogist working in a natural history collection, I can tell you that snap traps are one of the most humane ways to manage rodents--they are instantaneous, have high efficacy (i.e., rarely leave the animal alive) and do not cause a cascade of environmental harm (unlike poisons). ...

Hi all, I was finally able to take and upload some photos of the type of tag in question, included below. My apologies if the lighting is poor, as they were taken a bit hastily. I included a front view, where the degraded writing is, and a side/oblique view so that you can sort of see how the thin ...

Hi all, In the mammal department at the Harvard MCZ, we have about 50 specimens from one collector (B. Bjorkegren) that have original tags fashioned out of bamboo. These date back to the late 1930's when he collected mammals in northern Vietnam. Unfortunately, seeing as most of these tags are tied ...