And they wanted to know what might guide their movement. Bartholomaus, Gilbert and Hotaling were curious about how quickly the glacier mice traveled.
Entire communities of tiny creatures develop and thrive inside these tangled balls of greenery.īut there were still many questions about the moss balls. Over time, the growing moss forms an oval ball. Most suspect the balls form when airborne moss spores gain a foothold on a small rock or similar debris. Only a few other scientists have studied such moss balls. To learn more about what was happening, they teamed up with glacial biologist Scott Hotaling at Washington State University in Pullman. The potato-shaped moss clumps seemed to move across the ice. They had seen the moss balls on visits to the Root Glacier in southeast Alaska. Glacier scientist Tim Bartholomaus and wildlife biologist Sophie Gilbert both work at the University of Idaho in Moscow. The question remains: Why? Scientists Say: Glacier Now, in a surprise finding, scientists have discovered that the moss balls move across the ice together, like a herd. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.What’s fuzzy, lives on a glacier and migrates but isn’t an animal? Answer: Oval balls of moss, nicknamed “glacier mice.” Such moss balls can be found scattered across a few of the world’s glaciers in places such as Iceland and Alaska. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice.
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