Of course, my effort is really focused on photo records. Many of my new field partners say, no picture, it didn't happen, hahahahahahahahaha



Hogs are interesting, as mentioned, I have only been working on them a few months, so I am new.



I have seen lots and lots of them, but not even a years worth, muchless many years.



I am sure what I said would equal what you made of it. But it may. I don't think its about calicum, they do not worry about such things, i think and only think, its about mass, the ability to consume lots of energy. Also eggs are loaded with protien.



I have worked lots of species and some for many years. For instance, gila monsters, I have watched them for 34 years. In fact, one pair, I have watched for that lenght of time. Normally I see aprox 45 individuals a year. last year way more. Saw 20 individuals in one afternoon. Last year was a very poor recruitment year, very few gravid females. Most years, its rare for an adult female to not be gravid. Often recording dozens of gravid females.





















The picture of the two neonate gophers is interesting as one followed the other to where ever it went. Hogs do this, even neonates.



The gila by the tripod was on the study site, its a funny picture as the tripod has a timelaspe camera and it kept missing the gila, as the gila would sit under it, hahahahahahahaha I moved the cam back and fixed that.



THe last is a pair of males, that hole has 8 individual gilas in it. And they all hang out without conflict. WHich is something unusual for science and very normal for the animals.



In fact, we commonly see three or four speices that HANG out together. The interesting part is, its about individuals, not species. They only trust certain individuals. And never "hangout" with others. That goes for their own species, its about individuals. Best wishes

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