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I lurked the anole forum and found a link to Fla herps. Read the section on Drys and they mentioned that the average area used by the animals in a range study was @ 470 Acres, or (very)roughly 2/3 of a square mile, and one animal used nearly 2 square miles of range. That's a lot of territory for a snake, even a big, active Dry. Anybody have any support or rebuttal info? Is my math right? (Don't be shy about checking my math--it's my Achilles Heel) Anyway, if this is indeed the case, just how much space and excercise/stimulation do we owe our captive Drys and other herps? Are we keeping wolves in dog crates here?

Here's the link.

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/UW063

Males in the study will range 800-3000 (yes I said THREE THOUSAND)acres.

The new max. distance (3000 acres and 3-7 MILES in linear distance) was recently recorded by males in the GA study.

This is one of the (many) reasons for their population decline across most of their range. That much milage though fragmented habitat often leads to road mortality.