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Spilogate gracilis searching the rocky crevice, then leaving the crevice, where the adult female Gerrhonotus infernalis was located at Bamberger Ranch Preserve, Blanco County, Texas, USA.
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... found dead within a large crevice. Only the torso region where the radio was attached remained (Fig. 1). After reviewing the game camera images, a S. gracilis was photographed at 0505 h on 23 June 2022 searching around and reaching within the rock crevice where the radioed female was inhabiting, eventually the skunk into the darkness moving south (Fig. 2). The female G. infernalis was not observed on camera again suggesting likely predation by the S. ...
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