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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 western diamond-backed rattlesnake. Show all posts

Showing posts with label western diamond-backed rattlesnake. Show all posts

Monday, August 20, 2012

Interspecies interactions aplenty!

Friday evening while tracking Jaydin , we came across an Arizona black rattlesnake ( Crotalus cerberus ) hunting along an old corral fence. ...

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Sharing

Ever since we saw Roger Repp's talk at the Tucson Herpetological Society , Burrow Buddies — or Not? , we've been fascinated by diff...

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Bluffers & Cowards

Snakes are first cowards, then bluffers, and last of all warriors (Pope, C.H. 1958. Snakes Alive and How They Live. Viking Press, New ...

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Surprise neighbor

Back in November, we told you about a new snake den in the Galiuro Mountains ( Scenes from a new den ). We have been monitoring that den ...

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Drinking

Cap Mama takes advantage of some rain to take a drink of water dripping off the rock above. Drinking is a behavior rarely seen in wild sn...

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Scenes from a new den

We were recently told about a new social rattlesnake den in the Galiuro Mountains. We hiked in to check it out, saw one western diamond-bac...

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Bandshell

Halfway between Tucson and Phoenix , a crumbling granite hillside gives way to a cactus-studded alluvial plain. Small, sandy washes break ...

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