Focus at Four: A&M students study squirrel behavior

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By Heather Kovar

Published: May. 11, 2024 at 9:02 PM CDT

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - When you’re on Texas A&M’s campus, of course you share the space with faculty, staff, and students, but you also share it with wildlife everyone is familiar with: squirrels.

Students have begun using various technologies to study the squirrels on campus.

Professor Ty Werdel with the Texas A&M Department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management joined KBTX to discuss the research.

“What we do with these squirreIs, is we put these GPS or VHF collars on, track them around campus. And that gives them (students) the skills that they can go off in their careers when they’re tracking more large charismatic megafauna such as deer, elk, bighorn sheep, things like that,” said Werdel.

He says the technology will also allow students to know which tree certain squirrels are in at any given time.

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