SCIENCE19 - Endangered Animals in Arizona
This blog was inspired by my eight-year-old granddaughter, Sarah. Pat and I were “blown away” a few months ago when Sarah read out loud to us a school report she had researched and written on an endangered Arizona animal, the ocelot . We learned that she has been interested in endangered animals for some time, has collected several books on the subject, has been researching the subject in the library and on the internet with her kids tablet, and with her schoolmate, Jonny, “plans to save animals when she grows up.” As regular readers of this blog know, I often choose subjects of interest to me, that I don’t know much about, so I can learn something new. Endangered animals is one of those subjects, so after listening to Sarah, I decided to write an article on endangered animals in Arizona. Pat and I decided that it would be fun to involve Sarah, and her dad agreed, so we asked Sarah if she’d like to “help me out,” by choosing an endangered Arizona animal to inve...