Re: about Kennedy space center

Posted by Joe Monahan on February 11, 2001 at 01:12:25:

In Reply to: about Kennedy space center posted by Dean Alessandrini on February 10, 2001 at 08:51:14:

Dean,

I have a question:

1. Do they do any predator control - i.e. do they try to control the local raccoon, skink, oppossum populations that would feed on eggs?
As you know these "subsidized" predators can wipe out local herp populations.

: I'm going to be sitting down with the group before we go out and we are going to pick one another's brains. These folks are great with the snakes in the field but have NO experience with them in captivity...so we'll be swapping notes. If any of you have any specific questions (like Virgil's about year round breeding) let me know and I will do my best to get them all answered.

: One interesting note...over the many years they have been studying the space center area Indigos, they have NEVER actually found a nest! They have found the snakes in mating activites, but never a nest. They seem perplexed about this. The assumption has always been made by those studying the Indigos that gopher tortoise burrows were the primary nesting site...but they have no hard evidence to either confirm or deny this theory!

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: Dean, : I have a question: : 1. Do they do any predator control - i.e. do they try to control the local raccoon, skink, oppossum populations that would feed on eggs? : As you know these "subsidized" predators can wipe out local herp populations. : : : I'm going to be sitting down with the group before we go out and we are going to pick one another's brains. These folks are great with the snakes in the field but have NO experience with them in captivity...so we'll be swapping notes. If any of you have any specific questions (like Virgil's about year round breeding) let me know and I will do my best to get them all answered. : : One interesting note...over the many years they have been studying the space center area Indigos, they have NEVER actually found a nest! They have found the snakes in mating activites, but never a nest. They seem perplexed about this. The assumption has always been made by those studying the Indigos that gopher tortoise burrows were the primary nesting site...but they have no hard evidence to either confirm or deny this theory!

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