Daniel Blumstein
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And the cougars and wolves were eating them.
And they would go along the logging trails, eat them.
So it was a bad scene.
We have a paper on yellow-bellied marmots that sort of suggests that those who call more die younger.
So calling doesn't seem to be a good personal thing to do, but it may help others.
Loose lips sink ships.
Do they chuck wood?
I love my job.
I have the best job in the world.
Getting funding for it.
I'm getting funding.
So I'm running this long-term study.
We've just finished our 64th year.
We're planning our 65th year of studying this individually identified population of marmots in Colorado.
They can't get funding.
I was blessed by having 11 years of NSF support for this long-term research stuff.
And we were trying to get renewals.
And the program officer said, we will never fund you.
And we're asking questions that no one else, very few people can ask.
This project has been so productive.