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CKing
at Sat Dec 13 06:41:17 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by CKing ]
In a study of Bogertophis subocularis thermal biology conducted in west Texas, the snakes were released in localities foreign to the snakes. Several of these snakes apparently ended up being food for predatory birds.
If released far away from the capture site, the rattler may become food for local birds, badgers, or the common kingsnake. That is a "solution" that may be better than euthanization or preserving the animal in a glass jar in a university museum, especially for the more common species of rattlers, of which there is probably a good representative sample of preserved specimens.
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RE: "Recycling" - CKing, Sat Dec 13 06:41:17 2003