Recapturing a radio tagged fox snake
Posted in General By rob_carmichael on May 17th 2007
Our first radio tagged fox snake is a male that is currently in shed. When snakes are getting ready to shed their skin they tend to just lie in one place for a week until they shed their old skin. This means that when we are tracking this snake, it’s very easy! In fact, for the past week, I have found “Male 0160″ in the exact same spot. Unfortunately, “Female 0136″ is a much different story! She has traveled nearly a mile on the other side of this large, old cattail marsh! Unbelievable; this medium sized constrictor crawling that far from its original release site when I set her free only a week earlier after having a radio transmitter inserted into her (it doesn’t hurt her as it’s placed just under the layer of skin).
Every time we recapture one of our fox snakes it provides us with very important information that will one day help us to develop a conservation strategy to help save them.
