\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.acu.edu\/WebSite\/news\/images\/2013\/131008-olinguito.png\") <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nThe shrew opossum is making its scientific debut next month. It will be\u00a0listed in the Oct. 2013 issue of the Journal of Mammalogy.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s exciting to go to Ecuador to see new things that people have never\u00a0seen before,\u201d says Lee. \u201cEcuador is one of the most diverse places in the\u00a0world, and taking students there is very rewarding.\u201d<\/p>\n Lee\u2019s Ecuador discoveries can often be found in ACU classrooms. In Lee\u2019s\u00a0ecology, animal biology and mammalogy science classes, students see\u00a0pictures from his expeditions, if not the actual specimen itself.<\/p>\n Four specimens of the rat possum belong to ACU and are used for\u00a0undergraduate research.<\/p>\n On another Ecuador trip, Lee had photographed an unknown mammal. One year\u00a0later, the animal is now recently classified as the olinguito.<\/p>\n Every other summer, Lee takes students to examine Ecuador\u2019s ecosystems. The\u00a0Ecuador project started in 2000 when Lee went to Ecuador with a friend who\u00a0was carrying out separate research in the Galapagos Islands. The excitement\u00a0of undiscovered species in the area pulled Lee to keep coming back, inviting students to learn alongside him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As originally posted in “ACU News” on October 08, 2013: While leading a student expedition in Ecuador\u2019s Sangay National Park in\u00a02010 Dr. Tom Lee, professor of biology, discovered a new species of\u00a0opossum. Lee, along with one ACU student and one … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7079,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55713],"tags":[55716,55728,55720],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lee-lab","tag-ecology","tag-mammalogy","tag-systematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/biologyresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/biologyresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/biologyresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/biologyresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7079"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/biologyresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/biologyresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/biologyresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/biologyresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/biologyresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/biologyresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |
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