There was a thread below from the 9th talking about if there had been any studies on hognose feeding frequency. I am claiming that there are a few credible studies that give some insight on this, namely Platt's hognose natural history paper. There have been a couple of recent radiotracked hognose studies as well. Unfortunately I am on vacation right now in CO (of course, no where near where Westerns are native!) and don't have access to my literature. Once I get back to VA and settle in I will look all this up and report back to the forum. Not trying to start an argument either, I figured I collected all that literature for reasons such as this!

BTW: I am traveling up to Greeley tomorrow to talk with a researcher at UNC who has worked a lot with hognoses and apparently their venom. I'll report back on that as well!
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