Craig Thompson

Northern Research Station

Craig Thompson kneels in a forest and holds a sedated fisher.

I have worked with a variety of carnivores over the years, large and small, but one of my favorite research-related memories is being attacked by a northern grasshopper mouse. After I released it from a trap, rather than turn and run, it leapt at me and tried to bite me. I shouldn’t have been surprised, considering that those mice hunt scorpions and act like miniature wolves, but having a creature the size of my thumb be willing to do battle like that gave me a profound respect and fascination for these animals and their spirit.


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