Daniel Blumstein

We're all half plastic.

You know, you shouldn't read so much.

It's a really scary world out there.

We spend an inordinate amount of time sitting looking for things.

And we spend a lot of time just sitting and watching animals.

We spend over a thousand hours a year just trying to look at what's going on above ground.

In the spring, we can see things.

As the vegetation starts growing, it's harder to see things.

In the subalpine area, we work in Colorado.

In Pakistan, it was phenomenal.

I could sit on a ridgetop and see like eight social groups in this meadow because there's like no vegetation.

It was the most amazing place to watch marmots.

Aside from being hypoxic all the time.

A lot of SPF.

The more the merrier and use physical blockage.

So like you're working with hats, you're working with... You know, I used to surf a lot and I'm an alpine biologist and I've been neurotic about the sun and I cover myself and now I'm just getting things carved off me.

Okay, thanks, because neither do I. Having said that, Ken Armitage, who started this marmot project that I inherited, wrote a book on marmots and was looking into sort of northeastern...

you know, indigenous culture.

And it was possible that woodchucks were called wooshicks by some particular group of people.

So woodchuck came from wooshick.