I never said what type of kingsnakes you can find 100 in a day. But i was referring to Calif kingsnakes.

Second thing is the habitat destruction and deleopemnt in Florida has drastically changed since the commercial collecting days. You can't even find the old canal brooksi because those areas don't exists.

I don't remember now if it was nobody that said or someone else. But the area in Florida has become a hodgepog of introduced species being established and it is almost like a zoo . Then consider the detrimental fireants which also drive out and KILL Florida kingsnakes and other snakes that they feed on. Ever look around a treeline . that is where the snakes used to be and now all you see are fireants.



You can't compare what is going on today in florida with what is was like 30-40 years ago.

Calif has delepoement and any herper there can attest to the large number of kings that come up from the cracks in the ground is S. Cal to lay under the boardlines they put out. Unfortunatly most of those snakes are being removed because of planned delevopemnt in those areas and kingsnake entusiats who put the board lines there are just trying to get them out before the bulldozers come in. SO it would be mute to say that these could be study areas because of these facts.

Now if the developemet wasn't there today and you could go back to those boards. You would find the sname snakes year and after year. They go below when it is hot and come up during feb-march when the airtemps are cool and tey warm up under the AC . They don't eat each other and live communally.
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Observing them in a cage by themsleves with set temps and deciding when to feed is hardly natural or healthy for the snakes.

Bluerosy



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