ASP changes how people view and treat snakes
ASP changes how people view and treat snakes
Your calls, letters, and signatures put an end to the unethical slaughter and waste of wildlife at the Lake Providence Snake Rodeo. Your voice matters — together we stopped a 60-year old snake-killing contest! Thanks to YOU, wildlife-killing contests that target reptiles and amphibians are BANNED in Louisiana. About the rodeo From the mid-1960s until 2024, thousands
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Learn how to identify individual snakes by their natural markings in this online workshop. Have you ever wondered how we identify individual snakes? Over weeks, years, and even decades without laying a hand on them? Watch this workshop to learn how from the real expert — the one who taught us this method and has
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When: Friday 18 October 2024 Where: Open Space Brewing in Santa Clara, NM What: Presentation & Meetup with ASP The Nurturing Nature of Rattlesnakes Ready to explore the surprising world of rattlesnake families? Through engaging vignettes and videos, you’ll experience a day in the life of these remarkable reptiles and learn how they care for and
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This poem was written by Jim Vanas, who also took the photographs in Nevada. Don’t touch me, don’t catch me Please just let me be. Observe me, enjoy me. I’m wild, and I am free. I’m a turtle, a lizard, a snake, a little frog. I’m not a pet you keep at home, your cat
Coexisting with the Bushmaster in Northwestern Ecuador On World Snake Day, July 16, 2024, we were joined by María Elena Barragán-Paladines. She shared her project, Coexisting with the Bushmaster in Northwestern Ecuador. Watch the recording here or on our YouTube channel. Follow and support this project on Instagram If you liked this presentation, you’ll love
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Decade of Demystifying Snakes! ASP turns 10 on 16 May 2024. Old Friends: snakes sighted more than 10 years after we first met them! Residents of Sweetwater, Texas received handwritten Rattlesnake Love Letters from children asking for a no-kill roundup. In-person presentations & displays Folks in rural southwest New Mexico and southeast Arizona learned about
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Happy ASPiversary! We launched Advocates for Snake Preservation on Endangered Species Day (May 16) in 2014. To celebrate a Decade of Demystifying of Snakes, here are 10 things you probably didn’t know about snakes. 1. There are over 3,000 species of snakes. They range in size from Barbados Threadsnakes, who weigh less than a paperclip
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Rattlesnake babies are born alive and stay with mom a week or two until they shed their skin. During this vulnerable time, mom keeps them safe. But at communal nests, pregnant rattlesnakes and visiting males may care for the babies too. Did you know that rattlesnakes give birth to live young and take care of
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Even Awesome Moms Need a Break We first observed babysitting in 2010, when we started studying rattlesnake nesting. Fifteen years later, here’s what we’ve learned about this surprising behavior, based on observations of 43 mamas and litters at 18 rookeries. The most common setup for babysitting is at a rookery with pregnant snakes of varying
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In a research project led by Masters student Erin Allison, we evaluated how different messaging strategies can improve attitudes about rattlesnakes. We used an online survey to evaluate the perceptions of a diverse group of 1,182 US adults before and after they watched either a relational or instrumental video about rattlesnakes. The relational video showcased
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