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at Thu Jun 23 15:25:14 2011 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]
I think we are fairly naive as to what making or scent is all about.
I think its a language. They say lots of different things, and not just to other pyros. But to everything that reads(smells) it.
For instance, we know there is interaction between prey(rodent) and predator(snake) But we are very naive as to how it works. We only look at it in a one level simple way. Kinda like catch me if you can.
While thats not wrong. There is far more to it.
I have rattlesnakes that come to feed in a certain area. The exact same area. Three different individuals do so. I feed them white mice. They have been coming for five years.
Whats funny is, they follow a very set pattern, then they leave. What happens after that is interesting. We often see pack rats smelling where the snake was in a hunting coil.
watching this gives me the thought that rodents may be able to tell individual snakes from their scents.
Snakes may well leave their history on scent trails, who they are, when they were there, and thus when they will be back.
This allows rodents to exsist with snakes, and they do. Its the naive or sick rodents that become prey. Not just any rodent.
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RE: A Poopy Topic - FR, Thu Jun 23 15:25:14 2011