Social behaviour in snakes

[infernalis]

They are very well studied, but have 'they' ever looked for this kind of thing? It could be right under your nose, but if you're not looking for it...
I don't know. We'd need a 'field man' with a good local population.... feeding information back to us.. for years!

Guys how about an old farm boy who has been molesting the daylights out of his local population since if I remember correctly 1972? may I volunteer?

What is mind boggling is all the while, I never took any academic look nor approach, I'm looking through different eyes now.

The first time my kids came whining that the frog eggs were drying out, daddy to the rescue takes a large irrigation pump out back and fills er back up. so the kids are happy, mom and dad feel good, we did a deed.

The side effect is plentiful food source for the local garter population, so of course they hang out a lot around here, only encouraging this family of lunatics to keep on doing it.

We have a protected waterway running through the property, Protected as in drinkable quality, I drink from it all the time, flowing spring water.

Next time I have the bulldozer, I really want to dig a nice pond and declare it off limits. The newts, frogs and other amphibians will congregate.

Oh and I almost forgot, Before I die, it is a long time goal of mine to construct a hibernaculum with IR cameras wired to a PC so we could peek in anytime we wanted to without interference. (In the wild)

[Stefan-A]

Next time I have the bulldozer, I really want to dig a nice pond and declare it off limits. The newts, frogs and other amphibians will congregate.

Oh and I almost forgot, Before I die, it is a long time goal of mine to construct a hibernaculum with IR cameras wired to a PC so we could peek in anytime we wanted to without interference. (In the wild)

Heeey, those are my dreams.