Monitoring and keeping track of snakes is a cumbersome task. Jeff Lemm knows the inefficiencies all too well. The herpetologist has been studying red diamond rattlesnakes (Crotalus ruber) for years. In the early 2000s, he radio-tagged a few of the pit vipers in a bid to trace their movements. Since snakes don’t have appendages, the […]
  • happybadger [he/him]
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    3 days ago

    https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2017.2755

    That study is super neat. I've never considered this role for them.