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02-20-2008, 11:34 AM
Disney Scientists Study Woodrat
Associate Press
February 12, 2008
Walt Disney World is home to a couple of famous mice -- and some threatened rats from the Florida Keys.Disney scientists are running a captive-breeding program for the Key Largo woodrat.The rodent’s survival is threatened by pythons, stray cats and waterfront development.
Visitors to the Animal Kingdom theme park can see the woodrats on a tour of Disney conservation efforts.The Kay Largo woodrat is difficult to study in the wild. Its population is confined to a single island in the Upper Keys, where development has destroyed much of its habitat.Stray cats and pythons slithering into the Keys from the Everglades have been known to hunt the rats.Experts say about 200 woodrats remain in the wild. Another captive population lives at the Tampa Zoo.
Associate Press
February 12, 2008
Walt Disney World is home to a couple of famous mice -- and some threatened rats from the Florida Keys.Disney scientists are running a captive-breeding program for the Key Largo woodrat.The rodent’s survival is threatened by pythons, stray cats and waterfront development.
Visitors to the Animal Kingdom theme park can see the woodrats on a tour of Disney conservation efforts.The Kay Largo woodrat is difficult to study in the wild. Its population is confined to a single island in the Upper Keys, where development has destroyed much of its habitat.Stray cats and pythons slithering into the Keys from the Everglades have been known to hunt the rats.Experts say about 200 woodrats remain in the wild. Another captive population lives at the Tampa Zoo.