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Blackwater
at Sat Aug 16 06:07:12 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Blackwater ]
Controlled studies on translocated (I'll have to dig to get the citation) rattlesnakes, meaning snakes that were caught and implanted with radio telemetrics and released in an area farther than a few hundred meters from the point of original capture, show that the survival rate is EXTREMELY poor. That's why I said the snake should be release near the capture site, or not at all.
Once a snake is removed from a population, it is for all intents and purposes genetically dead to that population. In densly populated areas, removing one adult may be proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back for that species within that range. That's why it is not advisable to keep a snake that you do not intend to captive breed.
Sorry that you seem to have taken my original post on this topic so far out of its meaning. Giving the snake to someone else to release, without exact collection site data, pretty well means that the snake is as dead as if it were run down in the road in the first place, unless this gentleman knows den site locations that he can place the snake in or very near....
As Porky The Pig says... that's all folks.
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I forgot one important item.... - Blackwater, Sat Aug 16 06:07:12 2003