Texas Kangaroo Rat Research Paper

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Texas Kangaroo Rat
Texas Kangaroo Rats is a very rare rodents that only lives in certain counties of Texas. The Texas Kangaroo Rat once lived in Oklahoma, but have disappeared from Oklahoma and are only confirmed at the northern counties of Texas like Childress, Cottle, and Hardeman. These organisms help human beings by dispersing seeds and also helping to prevent invasive species that may thrive in Texas. The Texas Kangaroo Rat is endangered because human beings are invading the land that is the Texas Kangaroo Rats’ and using them for agricultural purposes and development, but it is better for us to help them out.
Common name for this organism is Texas Kangaroo Rat and its scientific name is Dipodomys elator, Dipodomys meaning Kangaroo
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Kangaroo Rats are supposed make sure that no invasive species can be able to thrive in the counties. Another way that the Texas Kangaroo Rat helps its ecosystem is by eating and carrying seeds to other places. A few of the seeds that the Texas Kangaroo Rat may include seeds like the Sunflower seeds, allowing some people to work and also have a nice snack. Consequences that may occur if the Texas Kangaroo Rat becomes extinct is that the land may become vulnerable to invasive species. This will cause an economic degradation and will affect the ecosystems that are in the counties that the Texas Kangaroo Rat lives in. There are a few solutions in place, but most prominent out of all is protecting land that elator live in and resources that they need. By doing so, the Kangaroo Rats would be saved from the threats that their ecosystem would change into a farmland and allow the Texas Kangaroo Rats have nothing to eat and starve to death. Another way that this would help the Texas Kangaroo Rats is by giving them enough resources to thrive, be more active and reproduce more. This would help the ecosystem by increasing the amount of food that its predators can

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