Western National Parks Association: Understanding a Decade of Dietary Competition in Two Endemic Island Carnivores

"Similar to the rings of a tree trunk scripting a plant’s life span year by year, whiskers lay down atoms of carbon and nitrogen as they grow. These atoms, invisible to the human eye, hold information about what the animal was eating as the whiskers grew. How? Because the carbon and nitrogen come from their food!"

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