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Posted by Kim Cooper, on 27 March 2013
Sproing! Sproing! Sproing! If there is one animal that deserves its own cartoon sound, it is the jerboa – a bipedal desert rodent with extraordinarily elongated hindlegs, fused foot bones, ...Posted by Kim Cooper, on 28 April 2012
We have been getting pretty good videos for the past few days, but it seems the animals have realized we aren’t actually predators and have gone on strike. After the ...Posted by Kim Cooper, on 27 April 2012
We just got back from the desert about a half hour ago, at 2:30 am, after a pretty successful evening. We also went earlier in the day to build a ...Posted by Kim Cooper, on 25 April 2012
Now the real adventures begin. We arrived at the field station on Sunday and met with The Fixer on Monday afternoon to discuss arranging a driver for the next week ...Posted by Kim Cooper, on 13 April 2012
I don’t even know where the last 72 hours went. Well, in fact I do. And it wasn’t spent sleeping. Since I now have 2 groups of people collecting for ...Posted by Kim Cooper, on 29 March 2012
This morning after a breakfast of fermented tofu on steamed buns, boiled peanut and rice soup, spicy strands of seaweed, and a plate of mixed onion, peppers, and tomato in ...Posted by Kim Cooper, on 28 March 2012
I have sprung up again in China. It’s time for another field collection of jerboa embryos in far northwestern China (Xinjiang), and since this is the reason Eva invited me ...Posted by Kim Cooper, on 10 September 2010
Hello Node folks. My name is Kim Cooper, and I’m a postdoctoral fellow with Cliff Tabin at Harvard Medical School. I recently spoke at the SDB meeting in Albuquerque, and ...