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Drymarchon32
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 Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 12:51 am Post subject: Indigo and Coachwhip Study |
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Hey all,
just thought I'd post a link to an interesting study about home ranges and activity patterns in Eastern Indigos and Coachwhips.
Its one of those things, we provide our animals with all the space we can, within reason and yet it's just not enough, but I can't really give my indigo a 185 hectare home range 
Hope this is the right place to post this.
www.cnah.org/pdf_files/691.pdf
Al
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Nice link, post more up if you come across any Coachwhip ones.
I found one on the food habits of black racers, puts a new light on what snakes eat in the wild.
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Interesting link-thanks for posting.
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Drymarchon32
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Think I read the racer one too, eat lots of roadkill? Have you got a link?
Is there a section on the forum specifically for posting interesting papers/links?
If anyone wants to see what your favorite animal's skull looks like goto
http://digimorph.org/
Some of the most amazing images, play spot the difference between Heloderma skulls, hours of fun for all the geeks 
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coachwhip
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Here's the racer one
http://plaza.ufl.edu/austinj/Racer.pdf
Shows what gut contents are found in them. Goes to show that the belief on most forums that snakes only eat mice and rodents, even when hatchlings, is quite wrong. Snakes eat anything they can find.
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Drymarchon32
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Thanks
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Goose
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without reading the article i would guess that they feed on largely immobile prey, in the case of tigers probably seabird chicks
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Bingo, but the interesting thing is methods they used to test the hypothesis, blindfolding snakes. Would be interesting to see if wild blind tigers are any quicker in killing live prey.
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i should think so if recently "blinded" snakes were able to find prey.
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