Snake Talk

Rich Baxter is a Director of a new organization, the Indian Ocean Tortoise Alliance or IOTA. IOTA is focused on the conservation of Giant Tortoises in the Indian Ocean and is based in the Seychelles. Chris and Rich discuss Rich’s path to becoming a tortoise biologist, Global patterns in Giant Tortoise distribution, Ecology of Aldabra Tortoises, and IOTA. Listen in as both Chris and Rich tell stories of their experiences with these amazing animals. Connect with Chris on Facebook, Instagram or at The Orianne Society.

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Chris talks snakes with Dr. Bryan Maritz, who is a professor at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. Bryan is deeply interested in natural history and has worked on many species across Africa. Chris and Bryan talk about global patterns in viper diversity, pythons, stiletto snake, and go in depth into the natural history of the Namaqua Dwarf Adder. Tune in to learn about the Snakes of Africa. Connect with Chris on Facebook, Instagram or at The Orianne Society.

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Johnny Carrol Sain is a writer, editor, and deep thinker of everything related to nature and rural culture. Johnny joins Dr. Jenkins to discuss the disconnect between culture and nature and then the even deeper disconnect between nature and snakes. They also discuss the importance of people having at least a base understanding of ecosystems and the interconnectedness of nature. Connect with Chris on Facebook, Instagram or at The Orianne Society.

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Herpmapper is a tool that allows users to record data on snakes they find in the field using an App on their phone. Herpmapper allows users to catalogue all of the data they collect overtime but more importantly links those data to wildlife management and conservation organizations. Chris talks with Mike and Don about the history, how to, and uses of Herpmapper as well as talking about snakes in the Midwest region they call home. Connect with Chris on Facebook, Instagram or at The Orianne Society.

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Dr. Dan Natusch is a herpetologist, Director of Epic Biodiversity, and chairman of the IUCN Boa and Python Specialist Group. Dan joins Chris to discuss everything pythons from where you find them in the world, their biogeography in Australia, to the phenomenon of vary color morphs in young Green Tree Pythons. They also discuss an event that has been in the news where a python attempted to eat a person. Dan talks about this particular event as it was one of his study snakes that attempted to eat the woman. They also discuss what about a pythons head allows them to eat such large prey. Connect with Chris on Facebook, Instagram or at The Orianne Society.

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Julia Duin is a journalist and writer who recently published a book on religious snake handlers titles, ‘In the House of the Serpent Handler’. As part of her research for the book Julia has spent extensive time in Appalachia at the churches and with the people in the serpent handling culture. Join Dr. Jenkins and Julia as they talk about religion, snake handling practices, and her book. They also go in depth on the National Geographic show Snake Salvation and the people featured in the show. Connect with Chris on Facebook, Instagram or at The Orianne Society.

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Melissa Amarello is the Executive Director of Advocates for Snake Preservation (ASP). Tune in to hear about her research on social interactions in snakes, ranging from how snakes care for their offspring to who snakes are “friends” with. ASP uses these types of studies on snake behavior to implement education programs geared to changing the public’s perception of snakes. Melissa also discusses how ASP works in the advocacy arena using their work on Rattlesnake Roundups as an example. Check out ASP’s website at www.snakes.ngo. Connect with Chris on Facebook, Instagram or at The Orianne Society.

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Dr. Peterson is an accomplished Snake Ecologist that has dedicated his career to studying the ecology of snakes and applying that knowledge to their conservation. Drs. Jenkins and Peterson discuss the path Chuck took to becoming a herpetologist. They also discuss the diversity of snakes in the Intermountain West and what Chuck has learned from decades of research, including an in depth discussion of one of the biggest long-term datasets ever collected on snakes, specifically a data set on Great Basin Rattlesnakes from Southeast Idaho.

The link for the Idaho Amphibian and Reptile iNaturalist Project is:

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/idaho-amphibian-and-reptile-inaturalist-project

Flickr Photo Albums links:

Idaho Reptiles: https://www.flickr.com/photos/petechar/albums/72157625821042969

Snakes: https://www.flickr.com/photos/petechar/albums/72157689924852796

ISU Herpetology Laboratory Publications on Intermountain West Snakes

1989-2019

1. Koch, E.D. and C.R. Peterson. 1989. A preliminary survey of the distribution of amphibians and reptiles of Yellowstone National Park. In: Rare, sensitive and threatened species of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, T.W. Clark, D.H. Harvey, R.D. Dorn, D.C. Genter, and C. Groves (eds.), Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative , Montana Natural Heritage Program, The Nature Conservancy, and Mountain West Environmental Services.

2. Peterson, C.R. and M.E. Dorcas. 1992. The use of automated data acquisition techniques in monitoring amphibian and reptile populations. Pp 369-378 In: Wildlife 2001: Populations. D.R. McCullough and R.H. Barrett, (eds.). Elsevier Applied Science, London.

3. Peterson, C.R., A.R Gibson, and M.E. Dorcas. 1993. Snake thermal ecology: the causes and consequences of body temperature variation. Pp. 241-314 in Snakes: Ecology and Behavior (R.A. Seigel and J.T. Collins, eds.). McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, New York, N.Y.

4. Storm, R.M., W.P. Leonard, H.A. Brown, R.B. Bury, D.M. Darda, L.V. Diller, and C.R. Peterson. 1995. Reptiles of Washington and Oregon. Seattle Audubon Society, Seattle, Washington. 176 pp.

5. Koch, E.D. and C.R. Peterson. 1995. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, Utah. 188 pp.

6. Beck, J.M. and C.R. Peterson. 1995. Movements and habitat selection of the Longnose Snake (Rheinocheilus lecontei) in southwestern Idaho. Idaho Bureau of Land Management. Technical Bulletin No. 95-18.

7. Corn, P.S. and C.R. Peterson. 1996. Prairie Legacies - Amphibians and Reptiles. Pp. 125-134 In: Prairie Conservation: Preserving North America’s Most Endangered Ecosystem. F.B. Samson and F.L. Knopf (editors). Island Press

8. Dorcas, M.E. and C.R. Peterson. 1997. Head-body temperature differences in free-ranging rubber boas. J. Herp. 31(1): 87-93.

9. Dorcas, M.E., C.R. Peterson, and M.T. Flint. 1997. The thermal biology of digestion in rubber boas (Charina bottae): physiology, behavior, and environmental constraints. Physiological Zoology 70(3):292-300.

10. Dorcas, M.E. and C.R. Peterson. 1998. Daily body temperature variation in free-ranging rubber boas. Herpetologica.54(1):88-103.

11. Cobb, V.A. and C.R. Peterson. 1999. Natural History Notes: Mortality – Great Basin Rattlesnake. Herpetological Review. 30(1): 45-46.

12. Peterson, C.R, S.R Burton, D.S. Pilliod, J.R Lee, J.O. Cossel Jr, and R.L Llewellyn. 2001.

Assessing the accuracy of Gap Analysis predicted distributions of Idaho amphibians and reptiles. Gap Analysis Bulletin 10: 42-49.

13. Vander Haegen, W. M., S. M. McCorquodale, C. R. Peterson, G. A. Green, and E. Yensen. 2001. Wildlife communities of eastside shrubland and grassland habitats. In, D. H. Johnson and T. A. O'Neil, Editors. Wildlife habitats and species associations in Oregon and Washington. University of Oregon Press, Corvallis, Oregon.

14. Scott, J.M., C.R. Peterson, J.W. Karl, E. Strand, L.K. Svancara, and N.M. Wright. 2002. A Gap Analysis of Idaho: Final Report. Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit.

Moscow, ID.

15. Dorcas, M. E. and C. R. Peterson. 2008. Testing the coadaptation hypothesis: the thermal

physiology and thermoregulatory behavior of rubber boas (Charina bottae). In: R. Henderson, R. Powell, G. Schuett, and M. Douglass (eds.), Biology of the Boas and Pythons. Eagle Mountain Publishing, LC, Eagle Moutain, UT.

16. Jenkins, C.L., C.R. Peterson, and J.O. Cossel, Jr. 2008. Sagebrush Steppe / Desert Shrublands. In: Pilliod, D.S., Wind, E., eds., 2008, Habitat Management Guidelines for Amphibians and Reptiles of the Northwestern United States and Western Canada: Technical Publication HMG-4, Birmingham, AL, Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, 139 pp.

17. Jenkins, C.L. and C.R. Peterson. 2009. A Trophic-Based Approach to the Conservation Biology of Rattlesnakes: Linking Landscape Disturbance to Rattlesnake Populations. Pp. 265-274 in W. K. Hayes, K. R. Beaman, M. D. Cardwell, and S. P. Bush (eds.), The Biology of Rattlesnakes. Loma Linda University Press, Loma Linda, California.

18. Cobb, V.A. and C.R. Peterson. 2009. Thermal Ecology of Hibernation in a Population of Great Basin Rattlesnakes, Crotalus oreganus lutosus. Pp. 291-302 in W. K. Hayes, K. R. Beaman, M. D. Cardwell, and S. P. Bush (eds.), The Biology of Rattlesnakes. Loma Linda University Press, Loma Linda, California.

19. Jenkins, C.L., C.R. Peterson, and B.A. Kingsbury. 2009. Modeling Snake Distribution and Habitat. Pp. 123-148 in S.J. Mullin and R.A. Seigel. Snakes: Ecology and Conservation. Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca , New York.

20. Bosworth, W. and C.R. Peterson. Idaho. 2009. In: Olson, D.H. (coord. ed.), Herpetological conservation in northwestern North America. Northwestern Naturalist 90: 61–96.

21. Jenkins, C.L., C. R. Peterson, S. C. Doering, and V. A. Cobb. 2009. Microgeographic variation in reproductive characteristics among Western Rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus) populations. Copeia 2009, (4): 774–780.

22. C. R. Peterson and J.R. Lee. 2012. Using Geographical Information Systems to design reptile surveys. Pp. 34-41 In: M. Foster, R. McDiarmid, C. Guyer, J.W. Gibbons, and N. Chernoff. (eds.). Reptile Biodiversity: Standard Methods for Inventory and Monitoring. University of California Press, Los Angeles, CA.

23. Dorcas, M. E. and C. R. Peterson. 2012. Automated data acquisition. Pp. 61-68 In:. M. Foster, R. McDiarmid, C. Guyer, J.W. Gibbons, and N. Chernoff. (eds.). Reptile Biodiversity: Standard Methods for Inventory and Monitoring. University of California Press, Los Angeles, CA.

24. Dorcas, M. E. and C. R. Peterson. 2013. Automated data acquisition. In: G. Graeter and J. Gibbons (eds.), Monitoring Methods for Amphibians and Reptiles. Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation - special publication.

25. Jochimsen, Denim, C.R. Peterson, and L.J. Harmon, 2014. Influence of ecology and landscape on snake road mortality in a sagebrush-steppe ecosystem. Animal Conservation, 17(6): 583-592.

26. Bauder, J.D. H. Akenson, and C.R. Peterson. 2015. Movement Patterns of Prairie Rattlesnakes (Crotalus v. viridis) across a Mountainous Landscape in a Designated Wilderness Area. Journal of Herpetology, 49(3): 377-387.

27. Bauder, J.M., H. Akenson, and C.R. Peterson. 2017. Factors influencing the movement patterns of Prairie Rattlesnakes (Crotalus v. viridis) across a mountainous landscape in a designated Wilderness Area. Pp. 154-167 in Dreslik,M.J., S.J. Beaupre, and S.P. Mackessy (eds.), The Biology of Rattlesnakes II, Herpetological Publishing and Distribution, Rodeo, New Mexico.

28. Jenkins, C.L., J.M. Bauder, and C.R. Peterson. 2017. Population level consequences of

microgeographic variation in Great Basin Rattlesnake reproduction. Pp. 143-153 in

Dreslik,M.J., S.J. Beaupre, and S.P. Mackessy (eds.), The Biology of Rattlesnakes II,

Herpetological Publishing and Distribution, Rodeo, New Mexico.

29. Spear, S.F., J.M. Parker, C.R. Peterson, C.L. Jenkins, and L.P. Waits. 2017. Modeling the effect of roads on habitat area and connectivity of midget faded rattlesnakes (Crotalus oreganus concolor) across Southwest Wyoming. Pp. 22-33 in Dreslik,M.J., S.J. Beaupre, and S.P. Mackessy (eds.), The Biology of Rattlesnakes II, Herpetological Publishing and Distribution, Rodeo, New Mexico.

30. Parsons, S.B., C.R. Peterson, C.L. Jenkins, and M.D. Matocq. 2019. Gene flow and habitat

connectivity in a native rattlesnake population on the Snake River Plain. Western North

American Naturalist 79(3):378-393.

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Chris talks snakes with Dr. Rulon Clark, who is a professor at San Diego State University. Rulon has been using videography at study sites around the country to study snake feeding in the wild. Tune in to hear all the interesting things Rulon’s cameras have found from snakes moving grass to make a better strike zone to ninja rats doing acrobatics to avoid snake bites. Connect with Chris on Facebook, Instagram or at The Orianne Society.

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The Walking Dead is an “Apocalyptic Soap Opera” where humans are trying to survive after a virus has turned most people to walkers (i.e., zombies). Kim Mross is a snake wrangler for the Walking Dead where she sweeps sets by temporarily removing snakes before shoots, temporarily removes snakes encountered during shoots, and educates crew and cast. Listen to Chris and Kim discuss stories ranging from the details behind the Snake Eating Scene in the Walking Dead to how her counterpart in Wife Swap reacted to walking into Kim’s home for the first time to find it was filled with snakes. Kim also talks about the set of the Walking Dead and how various actors feel about snakes. Connect with Chris on Facebook, Instagram or at The Orianne Society.

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