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Mike_Rochford
at Sat Oct 10 12:05:18 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Mike_Rochford ]
I'm sure they don't mention that it was tracked weekly. I only know that because I do most of the tracking now. And I did some of it back then but not the majority of it. And I have the database showing exactly where the snake was at exactly what time. I can't post the exact data right now because it's currently unpublished (although a paper has been submitted and will probably be out very soon).
The snakes are never really "out of range of the transmitter." The transmitters are always sending a signal until the batteries die. You just have to fly around searching for it until you hear the beeps. However, in the beginning, we were tracking snakes on foot because we didn't know they would move so far. But at one point some of the snakes did move too far from any roads for us to track from the ground and so that's probably what they meant when they said they were out of range. I have a copy of the DVD that they gave us after we made the show. I'll watch it in the near future to see what they said.
Mike
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RE: Well, as a matter of fact... - Mike_Rochford, Sat Oct 10 12:05:18 2009