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The road less travelled: keeping reptiles off our roadways

The road less travelled: keeping reptiles off our roadways

by Ojibway Massasauga | Feb 24, 2021 | Eastern Foxsnake, Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery

This neonate eastern foxsnake (Pantherophis vulpinus) was found crossing the road by an OPRREC technician between surveys. To the reptiles and amphibians living in the Ojibway Prairie Complex, roadways pose a grave threat. Roads create a deadly game of chance for any...
Introducing snakes to hibernaculum

Introducing snakes to hibernaculum

by Ojibway Massasauga | Feb 1, 2021 | Eastern Foxsnake, Massasauga Rattlesnake, Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery

The Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery team has demonstrated building hibernaculum for hibernating snakes, and using a borescope camera to check on the snakes as they are hibernating, but one question remains…. How do they get the snakes IN the hibernaculum?...
Checking on hibernating snakes

Checking on hibernating snakes

by Ojibway Massasauga | Jan 20, 2021 | Massasauga Rattlesnake, Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery

In this video, Kelly Antaya, field technician for the Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery program in Windsor-Essex region, Ontario, uses a borescope camera to check on the eastern garter snakes hibernating in one of our artificial hibernaculum. WPC’s hibernation...
Hibernating snakes – Part 1

Hibernating snakes – Part 1

by Ojibway Massasauga | Dec 16, 2020 | Massasauga Rattlesnake, Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery, Reptiles & Amphibians

In this short video, lead biologist Jonathan Choquette, Lead Biologist of the Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery Program in the Windsor/Essex area of Ontario, talks about our artificial hibernacula – burrows used by snakes for hibernation. See the different parts...
Artificial Hibernaculum Installation

Artificial Hibernaculum Installation

by Ojibway Massasauga | Nov 24, 2020 | Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery

In this quick video, the Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery team is installing artificial hibernacula in the Ojibway Prairie Complex. A hibernaculum (plural: hibernacula) is a shelter that snakes will use over-winter. With a long tube and multiple chambers at different...
What do snake researchers do in the winter?

What do snake researchers do in the winter?

by Ojibway Massasauga | Nov 24, 2020 | Massasauga Rattlesnake, Ojibway Prairie Reptile Recovery, Reptiles & Amphibians

Baby eastern gartersnakes (Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis) in WPC’s temporary housing facility. They will spend the winter of 2020/21 in artificial hibernacula as part of a hibernation habitat study...
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