Alli_Draggy
Wadjet's family
And a week's vacation, which just happened to intersect the Chattanooga Reptiday Saturday.
Anyway, JMIH was awesome. A bit of a brain overload-I have Allidraggy trying to type up her recollections and favorite workshops. It's an amazing experience to be with that many herpetologists and to hear everything going on. I think my two favorites were the one on Keelbacks and their glands and one on heat recognition in Burmese pythons (which involved training the snakes to indicate when they recognized a heat difference-turned out these W/C from the Everglades pythons could recognize heat differences down to the limits of the equipment, or .5 of a degree-which might explain why people trying to catch them in the everglades haven't been terribly effective).
Anyway, we'll probably go to the SSAR meeting next summer in Kansas. It was a neat experience-and I was officially the tag-along who was only there because the official attendee was under 18
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Anyway, JMIH was awesome. A bit of a brain overload-I have Allidraggy trying to type up her recollections and favorite workshops. It's an amazing experience to be with that many herpetologists and to hear everything going on. I think my two favorites were the one on Keelbacks and their glands and one on heat recognition in Burmese pythons (which involved training the snakes to indicate when they recognized a heat difference-turned out these W/C from the Everglades pythons could recognize heat differences down to the limits of the equipment, or .5 of a degree-which might explain why people trying to catch them in the everglades haven't been terribly effective).
Anyway, we'll probably go to the SSAR meeting next summer in Kansas. It was a neat experience-and I was officially the tag-along who was only there because the official attendee was under 18
.