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Ameron
at Mon Mar 8 15:34:09 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Ameron ]
On the Kingsnake.com forum, an experienced herper in AZ has shared some astonishing finds from years of herping.
Not only do he and other herpers frequently find snakes of different species together, he has found rattlesnake family units that are sophisticated.
Year after year, he returns to the rattlesnake den site to find the family there. Males bask in one section, females & young in another. When breeding time comes, males leave their family, go breed elsewhere, then return to the same pod area at the den site.
Horned lizards have been found sleeping together under the sand; some had their arms around the other lizard!
I really think that we are just BEGINNING to understand reptiles intelligence & social structure, and suspect that we have many surprises ahead as animal lovers & naturalists.
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