Wildlife Rambles

Wildlife Rambles: Eastern Chipmunk

JULIA JENNINGS Objectively one of the cutest inhabitant of Salem’s campus, the eastern chipmunk is also one of the hardest to catch on camera–especially during the winter when they hibernate in their burrows. Although dubbed the “eastern” chipmunk, this small rodent is not found in the eastern part of North Carolina and are most densely […]

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Wildlife Rambles: Barred Owl

JULIA JENNINGS Whoo goes there? A curious reader? Well then, welcome to the newest edition of Wildlife Rambles, where a different plant or animal on Salem’s campus is featured each month. Some of you hopefully caught a glimpse of this issue’s subject – the Barred Owl – this past Fall semester as it perched amongst […]

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Wildlife Rambles: Ginkgo Tree

JULIA JENNINGS Welcome back once again to Wildlife Rambles! Though the term “wildlife” is most often used to refer to only animals, it can also be used in reference to the flora of an area, and this month I’ll be teaching you all about the ginkgo tree! Also known as the maidenhair tree or Ginkgo […]

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Wildlife Rambles: The Groundhog

JULIA JENNINGS Welcome back to Wildlife Rambles! For this month’s edition I’ll be discussing one of Salem’s most well-known furry friends – the groundhog! Did you guess correctly from last week’s hint? The groundhog is actually a kind of giant ground squirrel, a marmot, in the same family as the tree squirrels we are familiar […]