At the time, identifying organisms that glowed purple, orange or pink under a black light was a bit of a thing in certain scientific circles.
And I’m thinking, of course my strange little animals do this.”
“And it turned out, pocket gophers, flying squirrels and opossums were the only animal specimens that fluoresced. So, he turned his UV flashlight toward those he had on hand. So, I said, ‘Well, what else do we have?’” During his time at Warnell, Pynne focused his research on pocket gophers, which are short-tempered and live in underground tunnels. “We tested it on the flying squirrels we had, and sure enough, it worked. So, he turned to Warnell’s collection of animal specimens. “A bunch of people, myself included, were curious about other animals,” said Pynne, now a private lands wildlife biologist with the Georgia Wildlife Federation. graduate of the UGA Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources and lead author of the study, said he was inspired to shine a light on the possibility a few years ago, after reading similar studies documenting the phenomenon in flying squirrels and opossums. Published in The American Midland Naturalist, this is the first time biofluorescence has been documented in pocket gophers.
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