[Gutenberg 17966] • Life History of the Kangaroo Rat

[...] Plate II. Fig. 2.-Kangaroo Rat Country Following Summer Drought. Plate II. Fig. 2.-Kangaroo Rat Country Following Summer Drought. An area of the U.S. Range Reserve in the autumn of 1918, showing the result of failure of summer rains. Such a condition is critical not only for the stockmen but also for kangaroo rats and other desert rodents, and results in competition between them as to which shall benefit by what the range has to[...]."