Return to Snake Island
Kiley Briggs
A return to “Snake Island” brings cold water, early spring snakes, and salamander surprises in this search for signs of seasonal emergence.
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Checking Artificial Cover for Snakes and Drift Fence Highlights
Ben Stegenga
Ben’s beginning to wrap up the snake inventory project and remove survey equipment from the property. In this month’s episode of Fieldnotes, he checks some cover boards and tin one last time as he gathers them up, and then revisits some highlights from the project.
Dr. Jenkins on The Big Fib Podcast
Tracy Karplus
Dr. Chris Jenkins was featured on Episode 227: Snakes of The Big Fib Podcast! “The hilarious game show where kids have to figure out who’s an expert, and who’s a liar, liar, pants on fire.”
Yellow-tailed Cribo
The Yellow-tailed Cribo (Drymarchon corais), a large colubrid that lives in the Amazon. Their colors and size can be impressive, but these are outweighed by their eating habits…
World Snake Day 2022
Join us in celebrating World Snake Day on July 16th! We’ll be featuring Snakes of the World on our social media platforms all week. Follow us to learn about some of the most unique and fascinating species out there.
Fieldnotes: June 2022
Views:461 views In this month’s episode of Fieldnotes, Ben has wrapped up Spotted Turtle monitoring for the year…
Why Are We Afraid of Snakes and How Do We Overcome That Fear?
Views:23,716 views To this day, I don’t know what compelled me to return to the scene of the…
Snake Activity Picks Up as Fall Approaches
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orianne
Misinformation abounds when it comes to rattlesnakes, chief among them, that they are aggressive blood-thirsty animals that will chase people around and bite unprovoked. While it is true they are venomous and that a bite from a rattlesnake is potentially life threatening, they aren’t out there looking for people to chase. Rattlesnakes are actually fairly docile animals.