Ord’s kangaroo rat has 57 Wyoming records, concentrated in Fremont, Sweetwater, and Natrona counties, the state’s low sagebrush basins; this bipedal, seed-hoarding rodent needs the loose, sandy soil of desert flats to burrow, not alpine terrain.
Records jump from May into a June peak of 24, then taper through late summer, a pattern that likely tracks trapping-survey timing as much as this strictly nocturnal rodent’s own activity. NatureServe ranks the species S5, Secure, in Wyoming.
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