Our second day was spent in Raleigh. We went to the Centennial Campus at NC State University. That is where the Wildlife Resources Commission is centered. We toured the exhibits and watched a movie about the changing environments in NC. Then we had a class on Radio Telemetry.
After class instruction, we went outside to actually search for critters with the radios. It was not as pleasant out as the previous trip, and were not as thrilled. It was pouring the rain, acyually, and had turned colder. Still we plodded through the forest looking for...
This TURTLE! Yes, they have radio transmitters on 8 turtles and you can go out and search for them. Because of the colder weather, the turtle had gone underground. You can see its orange shell in the center of the picture. It was buried in mud.
We left there and went to the NC Museum of Natural Sciences to hear a lecture and visit the exhibits. Here we are stroking a taxidermied opossum. Our next field trip is a three day excursion in February.
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