I have a Texas Indigo boy, around 8 months old and already around 2.5-3 ft. Excited to watch him grow. He's incredibly gentle, never struck at me despite the tail rattle warning. Incredibly easy to feed as they're foragers, so I just leave a handful of ftp's around his enclosure and he gets to them when he wants. I hope we see a resurgance of this species in the south as folks continue to learn about beneficial snake species.
Well done on your resoration of the habitat and the wildlfe, us humans must learn to share the world with all the other non human animals etc for all our benifit. thank you.
Incubating indigo go eggs and releasing the babies into the wild. That's the opposite of capturing the snakes. Sometimes it's good to do things backward.
What does it tske for wildlife biologists to care about the indigo snake population around my property? I found one dor at the end of my private driveway where it enters the main road where people frequently speed. I have sandhill with gopher tortoise populations and relatively large tracts of unfragmented land with may streams with bottomland areas flowing through the sandhill habitat. I sent pictures of the dor indigo snake to wildlife biologists hoping they would be able tk prevent habitat loss and destruction from occurring futher but there has been no habitat mangement practices done and no interest from the wildlife biologists. This is why these species are running out of hope.
Good effort on your part, and I hope you will be able to bring this the attention it deserves. Sometimes what it takes is a little insistency. Contact them again. Phone if possible, else mail. Say that you did not get any feedback the first time. Ask for what person (name and office) you should talk to. It´s probably not a lack of interest, but a lack of structure for dealing with (and replying to) information from the public, and your message getting lost along the way.
Gopher tortoises & drymarchon are so lovely!
Had an indigo family living in the yard for 30 years now. Sitting in my chair outside in one slithered under me one day
Thank you for giving some attention to a couple of underappreciated species!
I’ve lived in Orlando my whole life and haven’t seen an indigo snake in over twenty years.
I have a Texas Indigo boy, around 8 months old and already around 2.5-3 ft. Excited to watch him grow. He's incredibly gentle, never struck at me despite the tail rattle warning. Incredibly easy to feed as they're foragers, so I just leave a handful of ftp's around his enclosure and he gets to them when he wants. I hope we see a resurgance of this species in the south as folks continue to learn about beneficial snake species.
Do they poop alot?
This is such an uplifting story of true conservation. Great job!
Well done on your resoration of the habitat and the wildlfe, us humans must learn to share the world with all the other non human animals etc for all our benifit. thank you.
what will happen first: humans sharing the world with wildlife or humans sharing the world with other humans?
Awesome work! Those creatures are super-special. Thank you so very much.
The most special snake in North America. Don't give up hope.
It´s amazing how they can survive in the wild after growing up two years in a box!!
Keystone Species!!! Another one! Joining the list of woodpeckers, salmon, oysters are the tortoises!
The snakes are so pretty 🤩!!! 🐍
Great conservation effort 👍🏼
Thank you for your amazingly important work. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Could that area become a National Park? I think it has merit to become one, if it's not. Such an important area of our country.
Some of the protected areas are already National Forests.
Cool snake!
Awesome video; it shows an amazing commitment to very important work.
I love this series. Keep it up:)
Here in Florida, land that was woods, scrub, and fields are all Mcmansion subdivisions now. The land is going fast. I mean FAST. It's sad.
Incredible shots of some of those indigos ❤
Living in the Pine Barrens of NJ, I dunno if people understood how important controlled fires are to a pine forest.
Thanks Nature on PBS 👍
These snakes need more attention like this, I own a cribo and the whole genus is so smart. I have seen them open simple dog toys to get a pray animal!
Development/population growth are two huge issues. We need to stop any new development and keep Florida safe.
Incubating indigo go eggs and releasing the babies into the wild. That's the opposite of capturing the snakes. Sometimes it's good to do things backward.
(( 🐍 )) this is about snakes, I'm excited and I will watching here
REMEMBER, VOTE *NO* FOR MIAMI WILDS WATER PARK!! WE DONT NEED MORE LOSS OF PINELAND!
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Sorry. I hope tomorrow is better.
What does it tske for wildlife biologists to care about the indigo snake population around my property? I found one dor at the end of my private driveway where it enters the main road where people frequently speed. I have sandhill with gopher tortoise populations and relatively large tracts of unfragmented land with may streams with bottomland areas flowing through the sandhill habitat. I sent pictures of the dor indigo snake to wildlife biologists hoping they would be able tk prevent habitat loss and destruction from occurring futher but there has been no habitat mangement practices done and no interest from the wildlife biologists. This is why these species are running out of hope.
Good effort on your part, and I hope you will be able to bring this the attention it deserves.
Sometimes what it takes is a little insistency. Contact them again. Phone if possible, else mail. Say that you did not get any feedback the first time. Ask for what person (name and office) you should talk to.
It´s probably not a lack of interest, but a lack of structure for dealing with (and replying to) information from the public, and your message getting lost along the way.
Join the Orien Society if ya wanna help!!
Yet again.
The music is annoying.
lol, southeastern USA. Dam, this snake has zero chance of recovery.