Both Gordon(been in the field with him) and Andy(had several talks with him) are very good guys, you may want to ask them If mohaves have been seen in months later then Sept.



What is so darn silly is. Before you even posted, I posted of a whole bunch of rattlesnakes and a coral. I posted pics. I even have a witness, one of the forumites was there. It was in OCTOBER. So that sort of dismisses the september deal you just posted.



From your posts, it seems your a believer of paper. That is, you try to make snakes fit what you read. While theres nothing wrong with the body of knowledge contained in papers. Its merely mans(a person) interpitation of a very short and limited exposure to a snake or group of snakes.



In the paper you mentioned, I would most likely agree with everything they saw and reported. But may I add, there is much more to Mohaves then they could possibly write. So what they report is good, there surely can and will be additions to their body of knowledge.



Back to you. As I mentioned above, you seem to try to make the animal fit the paper, when in fact, its suppose to be the other way around, the paper is "supposed" to fit the snake. If the snake does anything other then what the paper or book says, then the book or paper is in error, not the snake. The snakes are always right, as they are indeed the subject of the paper or book. In this case, rattlesnakes in my area are active to some degree all year long. That is, they can be seen above the ground or even crossing roads in every month of the year.



In the coming months I will post and show some snakes that are active and not hibernating. You then can call Gordon and report it to him.



FYI, mohaves are on my property, I see them all the time. FR

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