Emily Taylor
@snakeymama
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Professor of Biology and interim Associate Dean at Cal Poly Bailey College of Sci & Math, Founder of @CoastSnake , Co-Founder of @Rattlecams . She/Her/Hers.
San Luis Obispo, California
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Looooook at the shelf fungus pins my student Stella made!! Who needs some? 🙋♀️
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This week, over 900 households in Sweetwater, Texas are getting handwritten letters from kids asking them to help stop the slaughter at their town's annual rattlesnake roundup. I was struck by this quote, which is 100% spot on. 1/6
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Skulls of 33 round-tailed horned lizards found inside a friend's kestrel box in Portal, AZ 💀
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What is this??
A Florida cottonmouth that ate an invasive Burmese python that had been radiotagged for study! 💪🐍
Source: December 2021, Herpetological Review 52(4):860-862 by Ian Bartoszek et al.
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There is a "Pro-snake Poultry Group " on Faceb♡♡k where people show off the wild snakes that they tolerate gorging on their chicken eggs. 🥰
📷 T. Ball
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Roundups are inhumane. Many other roundups have been converted to no-kill festivals, and that is exactly what kids are asking Sweetwater residents to do. Kids like this kindergartener got straight to the point. 3/6
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Hundreds of letters came from high school students who eloquently explained why snakes are important and what people can do. 4/6
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Right now, hunters are pumping gas into dens to extract hibernating rattlesnakes, poisoning the land in the process. On March 10-12, thousands of rattlesnakes will be beheaded and skinned alive (their brains function for hours afterward). 2/6
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Heyyyyy, watch out when you pick up your bag after doing fieldwork. 😳
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People often ask when baby rattlesnakes eat their first meal and are shocked when I say it's sometimes not until they are a year old. There's a reason why they're fine until then... 1/4
*warning: dissection photo below*
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Wow! Epic photo!!
American Bittern eating a mud snake
Photo by Elise Kitchens
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Some people think pics of rattlesnakes like these are boring. "It's just sitting there!" But this pic actually tells us so much about this fascinating animal. 1/7
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All this week, I will post more of these amazing kids' letters, with
#RattlesnakeRebrand
. Huge kudos to my
@calpoly
honors class for organizing the campaign,
@SnakeAdvocate
for funding it, and especially all the teachers, parents, and kids who made this happen. 5/6
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A friend accidentally left his window open when he went on vacation and a dove made a nest and laid eggs inside, and now my friend is being ever so careful not to disturb them and is posting regular updates and I am obsessed.
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What can YOU do? Write to the Sweetwater Jaycee's, who run the event, at 810 E Broadway St., Sweetwater, TX 79556 and ask them to convert the roundup to a no-kill festival. Let's help stop the slaughter and bring down the wall of shame. 6/6
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Japanese Giant Salamander and the Genbaku Dome, now Hiroshima Peace Memorial, last building standing after the "Little Boy" atomic bomb attack by the US in 1945.
These animals live over 70 years, so this individual *could* have been alive then.
📷
@robin_franzmann
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For
#ReptileAwarenessDay
, I think you all should be aware of the CUTE AND CHARMING fact that
#rattlesnakes
make themselves into little bowls to collect and drink rainwater.
Here is a smile-provoking depiction by artist Mike Essa.
It sure is cute, but is it true?? Read on 1/
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I walked over 100 miles last month, cut out all alcohol and complex carbs, and made sure I was constantly a little hungry. I lost 7 lbs.
Was it worth it?
No.
But do I feel healthier and more energetic?
Also no.
The human body is a treacherous traitor of efficiency.
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As a field biologist, some scary stuff has happened to me in the past. I radio-tracked rattlesnakes for years in Arizona. You encounter weird stuff at night in the desert.
#scarystories
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Cottonmouth eating a baby snapping turtle
Virginia Beach 1/3
📷 Jason Crawley
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I have salamanders on the brain! Did you know that some salamanders mamas, like the Ensatina, stay with their eggs until after they hatch? Look at these pics of two mamas found under a board in Monterey Co., Calif.
📷 Joe Garcia on
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What did this prairie rattlesnake eat?
📷 Cottonwood Rehab in Espanola, New Mexico
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This snake is STUNNING.
Actual colors (no filters or fancy business)
Turan viper (Macrovipera lebetina turanica) in Uzbekistan
📷 Mats Höggren
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Few things in the world are more beautiful than a mother rattlesnake gazing at her new babies. Specifically, as the photographer of this Prairie Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis) Amanda Stronza described, "with all the love in the world."
#RattlesnakeBeautyPageant
Day
#26
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The commentator at the National Dog Show just said re the best in group Old English Sheepdog "if you dig through all that hair and only find one eye, you're on the wrong end" and I'm dead.
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Here is what the owner John Roser-Comeau did with the skulls. 😂
"The photo, taken in my yard by my friend Noel Snyder, shows the dominatrix female taking a modestum from the male."
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Behold Jabba the Particularly Giant California Giant Salamander! This beast was likely suffering from dropsy for some reason. I find the poor thing gigantically adorable.
📷 Jaeda Chin
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Behold my new kicks. Sent to me by a friend from NYC. 🤩😍
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Since everyone likes hatchling horned lizards so much, here is a Greater Short-horned Lizard from the Chiricahua Mtns in Arizona, aka paradise on earth.
More photos in this thread, come on a virtual herping trip with me!
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Professor voice: This puff adder demonstrates rapid rectilinear locomotion accomplished by its complex musculature...
#WorldSnakeDay
voice: Pump up the volume this is incredible!
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Did you think this couldn't get better? It just did. Here is the owner John dressed up for Halloween one year as a kestrel regurgitating a lizard skull, and his friend is a full horned lizard skeleton.
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Speaking of spiders, this is still the coolest figure in my bio textbook, and it was so fun to make (well, to help the artist make).
Literally ran into this boy during my run tonight. He was still quite small. Helped him cross the road safely. I wonder if snakes eat tarentulas.
@snakeymama
?
Play video with sound on.
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A friend of the ranch owners built little boxes inside an out building where the rattlesnakes were denning. They voluntarily move in/out of the open box. There were three boxes but they all chose the same one. They WANT to be together even though they have more options!
We got to help sample a den of Western Diamond-backed rattlesnakes today in Southern Arizona. Check out this beastly female!
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Since Twitter seems to be enjoying the smol creatures this summer's eve, I present you with this highly boopable baby Desert Hognose Snake.
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Kudos to the surgeon on successfully removing this mousetrap. Looks like the snake managed to digest the mouse and got a square meal out of it!
📷 Cottonwood Rehab in Espanola, New Mexico
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Please admire this CALM beautiful big boy I relocated from the dorms today.
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An absolutely unreal San Joaquin Coachwhip near Pinnacles National Park 🔥
📷 @ that_gay_reptile_guy on Instagram
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On this day two years ago. Amazing!
Skulls of 33 round-tailed horned lizards found inside a friend's kestrel box in Portal, AZ 💀
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Several colleagues have said that students rarely come to "office hours." I've heard suggestions to call them "study hours" or "review time" to improve attendance.
I simply told students I'd have a venomous animal in my office today, and voila!
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Wow.
California kingsnake eats Southern Pacific Rattlesnake in Cayucos, California.
Thanks for the 📷 Kelly DEV
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Today's edition of random things found while snake hunting: a whale skeleton in a random lot.
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Loooo👀ooook at this image of a pregnant Tentacled Snake at the Wildlife Discovery Center! Photo by curator Rob Carmichael.
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@janeworld1
The hope is to someday turn it into a no-kill festival that would still generate the economic boost for the town. That has happened in many other roundups, and they have become even more popular.
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Did you know that rattlesnakes live right on the beach in many parts of California? We find them coiled up in the tide pools, getting dusted with sea spray.
📷 Spencer Riffle
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John sent me another photo from another year. This time the birds also got some other lizards, cicadas, and scorpions.
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Absolutely incredible image of a Desert Horned Viper (Cerastes cerastes) eating a Jerboa (Jaculus sp.) in situ, Western Negev Desert, Israel, taken 20 July 2020 by Itamar Donitza
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We first marked this female in May 2020, when she was a 1.5 year old snake and weighed 31g. We inject paint into the basal rattle. She has shed 4 times since then, and now she weighs 142g. Someone has been noshing rodents and living her best life.
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Absolutely stunning photo of a Gaboon Viper.
📷 Mark Spence
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😱😱😱! Beautiful female Gila monster in Arizona, handled and released by permit as part of a colleague's project.
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😳
This rat snake got itself a mouse...and the trap it was caught in. The nice folks at Stahl Exotic Animal Veterinary Services helped it out.
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Whoaaa! First death from a Gila Monster bite in nearly 100 years.
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OK folks, I emailed student and begged her to make these for sale. Shall I tell her she gets an A in my class if she makes these and sells them? Stay tuned...
Meanwhile, send memes to help me coerce her to do it, and I will spam her with them until she relents.
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Don't worry, stillborns are rare. We have loads of babies wiggling around, and we are just getting started! 4/4
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Fifth, and perhaps most important, she is pregnant and vulnerable, and yet she sits calmly with only a slightly defensive and alert posture as a scientist photographs her. Rattlesnakes are not the nasty beasts they are portrayed as on TV. 6/7
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A Namib Sidewinder (Bitis peringueyi) hidden under the sand. The interesting tracks in front of the snake's head were caused by the snake striking trying to warn off some inquisitive Gerbils who kept bothering her. These snakes eat mainly lizards and geckos.
📷 Chantelle Bosch
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Looooook at this
*chef's kiss* on the graphical abstract for this article
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One of the most beautiful snakes I've ever seen
Arizona Black Rattlesnake
📷 Mitchell Hawkins
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Something different for
#RattlesnakeBeautyPageant
Day
#20
: an absolute unit of an Eastern Diamond-backed Rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus)! Photo of Louis Porras holding the snake in 1974, taken by Ed Cassano. It's *very rare* to find EDB this large anymore. It's simply stunning.
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Get a load of this Western Fence Lizard that
@tessaileenn
caught (and promptly released) in her yard! 🍳
This lady had previously ad recently lost her tail. Luckily the yard is full of bugs to help her regrow it.
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I made a vision board for the papers currently underway to be submitted during my sabbatical, complete with all the students' smiling faces to help motivate me to git er done!
@AcademicChatter
#AcademicChatter
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Hissy Elliott is the proud mom to 11 pups this year.
Last year she had 15.
Annual reproduction is practically unheard of in Eastern Diamond-backed Rattlesnakes. The key was that she ate an enormous rabbit last year shortly after birthing.
📷 Matthew Fox Metcalf
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LOOOOOOK at this incredible shot of a Sonoran coral snake (Micruroides euryxanthus) taken by Bryce Anderson!
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Welcome to the world, little one!
The first baby born in our study on drought impacts on rattlesnakes. You can see its umbilical cord visible as it emerges from its amniotic sac. It will be released with mom and siblings after data collection.
Yes, it will have a bellybutton.
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Snakes are super important parts of all ecosystems.
#SnakeSafeSpace
! We Don't Kill Snakes
All proceeds from fence signs and stickers go to (native) snake rescue, rehabilitation, and outreach.
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Why yes, I did save my favorite image of all time for
#RattlesnakeBeautyPageant
final Day
#31
! This image of a Mojave Rattlesnake (Crotalus scutulatus) by
@rattlesnakeguy
is truly epic.
Oh, you want to see my other entries all in one place? Here you go: 1/
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Nothing says autumn like the silly mug of a coral snake.
📷 Guillaume Tessereau in French Guiana
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Fellowship at a desert bar
Photo by A. Jacques (somewhere in Arizona)
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Pregnant mama hanging around with another snake's babies 😍
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I am so thrilled to have been awarded the Margaret Stewart Award for Excellence in Ichthyology or Herpetology by
@ASIHCopeia
!
Thank you so much to my mentors, students, and the committee for honoring me with this award.
Here's my favorite
#HERper
selfie.
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These folks made this to allow a wild rat snake in/out privileges. 🥹
Prince William Conservation Alliance in Virginia, USA
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It's Day
#1
of
#RattlesnakeBeautyPageant
! RT far and wide to show people the stunning beauty of these beasts.
This mesmerizing photo of a Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnake (Crotalus pyrrhus) by Spencer Riffle kicks off the pageant.
Stay tuned for daily posts!
#RattlesnakePR
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So.... THIS happened last night on the rattlesnake livestream.
A thirsty rattlesnake came out of the den and drank rainwater off of her coils.
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California is experiencing atmospheric river storms over the next week, and I am going to Mendocino on Sunday to roll around in salamander habitat like a pig in 💩!
Northwestern Salamander (one of the targets) 📷 by Spencer Riffle
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Fire & Ice Pigmy Rattlesnakes (Sistrurus miliarius)! Day
#9
of
#RattlesnakeBeautyPageant
features this red 🔥 individual photographed by James Adam and this anerythristic 🧊 individual photographed by Kameron Burgess.
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We watered this little rattlesnake to help it through the drought and it eagerly accepted, and a nearby beetle came over to get a sip
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The tick burden on some of the Aegean wall lizards is impressive!
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