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The behavioral response of emerging pine snakes (Pituophis melanoleucus) to people: implications for survival and protection

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Burger, Joanna
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	Considerable attention has been devoted to the effects of people on birds and mammals, usually in wilderness areas. In contrast, human disturbance of reptiles has largely been ignored. Many reptiles, such as snakes, are hard to conserve because they are difficult to locate and protect. The young are especially vulnerable to predators when they first hatch and must emerge from nest sites. In this paper, the response of pine snake (Pituophis melanoleucus) hatchlings to the presence and handling by people was observed in the laboratory and in the field. Pine snakes lay their eggs in underground burrows in open sandy pine barrens, and the hatchlings push their way to the surface to emerge. Hatchlings that were visually-disturbed or touched as they emerged returned immediately to their tunnels and nests, and required more time to re-emerge than did their siblings that were not visually-disturbed or touched during their initial disturbance. In nature, undisturbed pine snakes showed similar re-emergence times to those from the laboratory, and disturbed snakes required longer to re-emerge. These data suggest that in nature even the presence of people in nesting areas of pine snakes would lengthen the time the young are in burrows, exposing them to additional threats from predators. This suggests that parks or nature reserves with vulnerable snake populations should restrict human disturbance during the period when young snakes are emerging from their nests. Field observations indicate that a set-back distance of more than 12 m from known nesting areas is essential to protect emerging hatchlings.
Starting Page	193
Ending Page	201
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10838155
Journal	Urban Ecosystems
Volume Number	10
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15731642
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
Publisher Date	2007-03-07
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Human disturbance Reptiles Snakes Emergence Urban wildlife Park Wildlife management area Set-back distance Nature Conservation Environmental Management Ecology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Ecology Urban Studies

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