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Originally Posted by adamanteus
That's fascinating, Stefan. Do you think you could find that article again, and post it for us?
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I think I definitely gave the wrong impression, the article was on the migration patterns, not on the snakes getting lost.
I found it in a zoological station's library during our field course a couple of weeks ago. No, the thing about snakes getting lost was "just" something that I've heard from a biologist that is critical of the relocation of adders that are encountered near human habitation. To paraphrase him, it's as good as killing them.
They had a few very interesting articles on reptiles there, but unfortunately my school doesn't have access to the online versions and I couldn't copy them while I was there. I managed to memorize a few details, though: In one population of grass snakes, rodents made up 25%(!) of their diet.
