Midget Faded Rattlesnake featured in High Country News
The work of The Orianne Society on protecting the Midget Faded Rattlesnake was recently featured in Marian Lyman Kirst's blog,...
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The work of The Orianne Society on protecting the Midget Faded Rattlesnake was recently featured in Marian Lyman Kirst's blog, Snakes on a plain, for High Country News.
The article features Dr. Steven Spear, Assistant Conservation Scientist for The Orianne Society, and Clayton State University researcher Dr. Josh Parker, who has been working with Dr. Spear on this little known species that's at the center of the great...
The Orianne Society will be kicking off a new radio telemetry study to determine the effects of translocation on Gopher Tortoises in southern Georgia. Translocation is the transport and release of plants, animals, or habitats from one location to the other — in this case, Gopher Tortoises. In August of 2011, The Orianne Society partnered with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to translocate 32 Gopher Tortoise from private lands that were being converted to agriculture, to...
We are getting to the time of year where snakes are going to start moving (or, in some places, already have). This is a time when many human/snake interactions occur. So why are they moving and what should you do if you encounter or are bitten by a snake?
Why they are moving
Snakes and other reptiles are ectotherms (some refer to this as cold-blooded). This means that they rely on external sources of heat, like the sun or a patch of shade, to regulate...
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