reproduce
reproduce: make more of your own kind
Gray squirrels, since being introduced from North America, have been forcing red squirrels out in the United Kingdom. They were originally brought in when they charmed wealthy European manufacturers. Now, they have made it so that red squirrels are considered endangered in the country. Gray squirrels are not only taking food and habitats, but are also spreading a disease, squirrelpox that kills red squirrels, but that gray ones are immune to. Though there have been multiple attempts to eradicate the harmful gray squirrels, none have been permanent or even very effective. But, with the return of the predator pine marten, gray squirrel population has been plummeting. Once their numbers go down, red squirrels can quickly recover, giving hope to their species.
Grow and Develop
grow: increase in size or number
develop: change or mature
Etienne BensoN
- works at the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of History and Sociology of Science as a historian of science, technology, and environment
- wrote a book, Wired Wilderness as a history of wildlife radio-tracking
- has written multiple articles
- wrote an article on "the urbanization of gray squirrels," along with others