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FR
at Sat Apr 6 17:06:04 2013 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]
Again, we agree on a whole lot. And the temp thing, you are so right, in the field, they are moving, when other heat loving snakes are not.
The reason I ask about birds is two fold. One, here, where I am working with them, Box turtles heck any turtles are not common. Fat less common the the hognose snakes. Which in theory would not work for box turtles. On the otherhand, there are lots and lots of ground nesting birds.
A friend emailed me a video of a neonate hog, attacking a hardboiled chicken egg. I mean attacking it like crazy, have you seen that?
So of course I tried pieces of hard boiled egg and yes they eat that(is there anything they don't eat)
So this year, I am hoping to find them using bird nests, eating eggs, etc and also finding ground nesting birds and offering eggs and nestlings to captives.
Again, their habitat is sandy, so I could find evidence of snake tracks in and around empty nests.
I was already aware there were more and more records of egg eating in hogs. I would just like to expand on that here and observe how it effects context in wild hogs.
Soft evidence like females are heavy after bird nesting or rodent nesting, etc. And skinny after toad season, which I have already observed( which does not mean much, as it could have been a poor season at this site, time will tell.)
One more naive question, how do hogs produce blood in their mouths, when bothers and do that death fainting behavior(its not playing dead, its playing awful nasty) Thanks so much
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RE: Oh, and another thing... - FR, Sat Apr 6 17:06:04 2013