i'm excited.. new wildlife experience!

So tomorrow I am heading to the Hoopa Reservation in northern California to work with a Wildlife graduate student..
he's going to teach me how to trap and handle Ringtails!!! I'm super excited, cause i've wanted to work with ringtails for a while now... plus they're ADORABLE

We'll be tracking them with radio telemetry. Any newly captured individuals will be radio-collared.

here's a pic of one, if you aren't familiar with them. They are in the family Procyonidae (raccon family).

 

wow their mutts. Cute though.

 

Haha, yeah! they look like a weird fox-cat with a raccoon tail

 

soooooooooo cuuuuuute!!!!! Good luck!

 

Thanks cate!!! I know, so freakkkinnggg cute! dang little animals, always being all cute and stuff..

 

ya whats with that

 

hahah not sure, if only i could harness their cuteness into an elixer, i would be so rich

 

Sounds awsome. You work in animal research?

 

yeah, i'm in my last semester of Wildlife Biology

 

I had ringtail once,,, it taste like chicken.

 

this real cool sarah, thoses things look awesome.

 

Oooh that sounds well exciting Have fun!!

 

that's so awsome. I love the wild-life. these little things look adorable!

 

Sounds like a super fun adventure

 

that sounds wicked sarah, hope you have a blast
i love ringtails, so god damn cute

 

thanks for the replies everyone!!!
well today went AWESOME. Cale and I worked really hard...from 7am to 5pm without stopping. and the best news- we trapped a new male ringtail and a fisher! So i got to learn how to do everything-chemical immobilization, taking blood, measurements, restraint, trapping, and putting radio collars on! it was the most fun ever. AND i get to work with these guys all semester 'cause he chose me to be his wildlife tech! im so excited

here's some pics from today:

me and a Bassariscus astutus (ringtail) male






the fisher we caught (Martes pennanti) male

 

Did it taste good?

 

i've eaten Coati.. which is a procyonid, like ringtails, and it taksted gross. it was like.. solid, bad tasting fat

 

I guess that explains why they don't mass farm ringtails.

 

yeah... they only weigh about 2 lbs. that's not much meat. :/