At 12:40 PM 12/14/97 -0800, you wrote:

>No-one's ever had a really good look at it 'cause it's *really* shy, but
>they say that the legs on the critter's uphill side are way shorter than the
>legs on the downhill side. And that, and the trails it leaves, is about all
>anyone really knows about the Side-hill Gouger. They've got to be common: in
>the dry country, their trails are everywhere.

Clearly there are many separate populations, if not subspecies, adapted to
slopes of varying degrees of steepness.

Kelly, how can one live in the PNW without hearing of the side-hill gouger? :)


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