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Patagonia

How to Walk a Transect

By: Nico Hochanadel, University of Vermont

Now that it’s 10:00 am, we can start walking. You are in charge of the compass and your job is to ensure that we continue to walk due north. A few minutes later we see our first guanaco! You mark the waypoint on the GPS and read out to me the distance and orientation of the guanaco while I record everything on the data sheet.

Patagonia

Musings and Mammals in the Chacabuco Valley

by Sophie Karolczak, of Wesleyan University Both teams just returned from spending the last eight days in Patagonia National Park performing censuses on guanaco and Ñandú (Darwin’s Rhea). The Patagonia National Park includes the Tamango Reserve, the Jeinimeini Reserve, and…