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I've been on here all day not accomplishing anything. But it's so great! I can watch videos and listen to music. I can talk on the phone and not get the boot! Not that I have anyone to talk to, but I could if I wanted to. This just makes staying at home all the time that much better! Now I'm going to look at junk I couldn't before!VIEW 9 of 9 COMMENTS
Currently I am collecting samples, marking animals for later re-capture, and observing animals when found undisturbed. It's actually a simultaneous event since the tissue collection also results in a sample --toe clipping. You can't do that on your snakes
Usually, I only find them by disturbing them by overturning bark, etc, and so can't rely on what they do next as typical behavior. But when found "out and about", they are recorded as to location (GPS) and "tracked" for as long as there is remaining daylight. Animals found in the morning get longer records than animals found in the afternoon. This is what takes the greatest amount of time and is pretty mindless work--but very important to understanding their movements. They don't move a lot and their home ranges are small enough (a few hundred to 1,000 square meters--depending on sex) that sitting and watching, rather than climbing over hill and valley, is sufficient in most cases. And, of course, with small home ranges clustered around preferred feeding sites, may be similar to "islands"--which is my thesis: Reproductive isolation and genetic diversity will vary with respect to home range size and density of suitable habitats.
Still gathering background data.