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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught. – Baba Dioum, Senegalese Conservationist

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Showing posts with label maternal care. Show all posts

Showing posts with label maternal care. Show all posts

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Happy Mother's Day!

Mother's day is a much bigger deal than Father's day. Why? Well, there's just something extra special about mom ( sorry Dad! ). ...

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Removing the blinders

"Fear of the dangers of anthropomorphism has caused ethologists to neglect many interesting phenomena, and it has become apparent that ...

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Survivors

It is always a little sad to say goodbye to the rattlesnake families at the end of the nesting season. It’s a difficult time for the neonat...

Friday, December 16, 2011

Sigma vs. the squirrel

Squirrels and rattlesnakes have a complicated relationship. Some squirrels have developed resistance to rattlesnake venom so that an adult ...

Friday, December 9, 2011

Basiliscus Family Values

You didn't think that Arizona black rattlesnakes were the only ones to take care of their kids, did you? In a recent post on the Fi...

Friday, October 28, 2011

A day in the life of a rattlesnake family

Rattlesnakes take care of their babies. Yep, they really do. But, what does "care" look like in a snake? Do they feed their yo...

Thursday, October 20, 2011

A rattlesnake helper?

Priscilla, Lois, and Arli spent their pregnancy together at a rookery from May through August, 2010. Arli moved away to a private nest shor...

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