{"id":150485,"date":"2019-07-09T08:20:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T12:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=150485"},"modified":"2023-06-27T12:16:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T16:16:30","slug":"tracy-rittenhouse-knows-wild-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/07\/tracy-rittenhouse-knows-wild-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracy Rittenhouse Knows Where the Wild Things Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"custom_text-5c64489d18d01-0\" class=\"custom-text\">\u201cThey\u2019re just so quiet.\u00a0People don\u2019t see them even though they\u2019re right there,\u201d says Tracy Rittenhouse of the Connecticut bobcats she is studying. \u201cI think they\u2019re living in places more urban than we ever imagined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"custom_text-5c64489d18d01-1\" class=\"custom-text\">Her students have shown her pictures of a bobcat they spied in the parking lot of the Young Building on campus. \u201cBobcats are very good at avoiding people even though they\u2019re active at all times of the day and night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"custom_text-5c64489d18d01-2\" class=\"custom-text\">Rittenhouse, associate professor of natural resources and the environment, was asked to help analyze data for The Bobcat Project that Connecticut\u2019s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) began last year.<\/p>\n<p id=\"custom_text-5c64489d18d01-3\" class=\"custom-text\">Despite having studied the state\u2019s populations of everything from salamanders and bats to deer and bear, she finds this survey \u201csuper exciting.\u201d Few in-depth studies have been done on bobcats anywhere in the country. So there\u2019s a lot to learn.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full story, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2019\/02\/01\/tracy-rittenhouse-knows-wild-things\/\">magazine.uconn.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobcats have been spotted on campus. Students who took pictures of them showed them to Rittenhouse, who is helping analyze data for the state&#8217;s Bobcat Project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":151350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076,2387,2225],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2027],"class_list":["post-150485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-sustainability","category-uconn-storrs"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 10:40:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150485"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151801,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150485\/revisions\/151801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/151350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150485"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=150485"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=150485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}