Biology
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Snow Patches Offer Vital Refuge for Mountain Goats From Biting Insects, New Study
The team studied goats in the park—along with another population 1,000 km south—completely non-invasively, by filming them using telephoto lenses and counting the number of flank movements per 15-second time interval to calculate respiration rate, as well as the number of ear-flicks per 15-second time interval to measure insect disturbance.
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