{"id":164,"date":"2012-09-21T17:28:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T21:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2012-09-21T17:31:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T21:31:02","slug":"road-cruise-amphibian-and-reptile-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Road Cruise Amphibian and Reptile Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Had a good time on the road last night with Andy and Margaret. \u00a0We found a Hopi (Prairie) rattlesnake, several gopher snakes and a Chihuahuan night snake. \u00a0Unfortunately several of the gopher snakes and the rattlesnake were mortally injured by cars and needed to be put down — very disappointing. \u00a0We also found numerous small live Plains spadefoot toads and a Mexican spadefoot. \u00a0We saw several squashed horned toads (which are actually lizards). \u00a0Andy collected environmental data at the start, turnaround and end for this ongoing study. \u00a0Various live traps and other studies supplement this information. \u00a0We left at dusk and returned after a full circuit of the park road around 11 pm.\"\"<\/a>The gopher snake was the most commonly found snake last night.\u00a0\"\"<\/a>It looks similar to the night snake but can be readily distinguished because the nightsnake has spots behind the eyes.<\/p>\n

The spadefoot toads have spurs on their hind legs that they use to burrow backwards into the soil during the winter. \u00a0They can puff themselves up to convince predators not to eat them. \u00a0Altogether a very enjoyable and interesting night.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Had a good time on the road last night with Andy and Margaret. \u00a0We found a Hopi (Prairie) rattlesnake, several gopher snakes and a Chihuahuan night snake. \u00a0Unfortunately several of the gopher snakes and the rattlesnake were mortally injured by … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8lcUy-2E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}