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Indigo Success 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
By Jim Godwin It’s the end of another season of monitoring of the Eastern Indigo Snake reintroduction project in Conecuh National Forest. During the winter months biologists and experienced volunteer...
Friday Roundup: This Week's Wildlife Links (August 23, 2013) 23 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
New mammal species in South America, here and here (thanks Alyssa) A summary of ongoing Pinesnake research in New Jersey. Shark Week Controversy: Does film fakery hurt conservation? Discovery's non...
Readers Write In: Is This a West Virginia Copperhead or Something Else? 21 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
A friend of mine caught this snake in a field about 30 yards from a small creek outside of Milton, Cabell Co. West Virginia. He sent me the photo and asked if I thought it was a Copperhead. I aske...
Two Trips to the Rainforest 19 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
By Brian Folt Growing up, a summer-time ritual in our family was to visit the zoo. Most of my younger years were spent growing up in the greater Detroit, Michigan area, and the Detroit Zoo was a stap...
Friday Roundup: This Week's Wildlife Links (August 16th, 2013) 16 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Large marine fish are being found with lots of plastic inside them. Ethics to consider when you're observing wildlife. Pretty cool to think about: less time separates us from Tyrannosaurus rex than ...
Readers Write In: What is this Aggressive Snake on my Patio!? 14 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Hi, I found your website and it has lots of great info, especially about snakes. So last night I found this snake on my patio.I live in Alexandria Virginia, just outside Washington DC. I now realize ...
Cottonmouths in the Ocean: Fact or Fiction? 12 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
<!--StartFragment--> We know that some reptiles love the water. Alligators, turtles, snakes, the swamps are crawling with them. But what about the ocean? Are there any reptiles that use saltwater hab...
Friday Roundup: This Week's Wildlife Links (August 9th, 2013) 9 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
David Quammen describes the perilous and short lives of male lions on the Serengeti. How to send the message to a restaurant that we are interested in knowing about where their seafood came from. No...
Readers Write In: What is This Pair of Nocturnal Swamp Snakes? 7 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Hello – We live on a neighborhood pond in a Roswell, Georgia which is just about 15 miles north of Atlanta. My six year old daughter is a budding herpetologist and really likes exploring the pond ban...
Readers Write In: What is This Oklahoma Snake that Escaped a Glock? 5 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Hi David, My cousin - who lives in Edmund Oklahoma - got freaked out by a snake he saw outside his house. He said it was a killer rattlesnake at least 8 feet long and it was crazy aggressive. He took...
