**I think this is the case. Finding a first lizard meal may not be that easy in the high elevations, when all the reptiles go to ground with dropping temperatures. So these snakes have evolved to survive until spring, when things warm up again and the prey is also awake.**



Well here in Arizona in the high country where I live (5,000 ft).....and where pyros and lizards live......and the night time temps have been below 32 degrees the last couple of nights..... during the day when the sun is out 90% of the time in Arizona....the lizards are out during the day time. Pyros have been found on Thumb Butte (6,000 ft) by hikers on Thanksgiving day here in Prescott.



Pyros finding lizards is never a problem, even in October.







Kerby...
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Life is like a bunch of fish in an aquarium....we all get along (bonding) until I want to eat you....and I do.

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