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Still frame image from video capture of a nocturnally active Striped Skunk (Mephitis mephitis) with an adult Charina bottae coiled around its neck from Nevada, USA.
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... 0131-0132 h on 10 August 2022, EAR captured a video recording of a Striped Skunk (Mephitis mephitis) with a Charina bottae tightly coiled around its neck (Fig. 1). Ambient temperature was recorded at 20°C. The camera trap (Browning Recon Force Elite HP4) was stationed within the Sierra Nevada at Bowers Mansion Regional Park (BMRP), Washoe County, Nevada, USA (ca. 1615 m elev.). The camera station was positioned along a drainage in the southern part of the park. In the video (available at ...
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... thank José António L. Barão-Nóbrega for reviewing the first draft of our manuscript. At 1130 h on 9 July 2020, in a deciduous forest in the province of Yucatan, Mexico (21.28935°N, 89.41247°W; WGS 84), we found a specimen of C. lineatus resting in the trail. When we tried to capture it, the individual regurgitated 8 juvenile I. valliceps (Fig. 1), four of which hopped away almost immediately after being ...
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... et al. 2002, op. cit. The landscape at the research station is mostly Chihuahuan Desert scrub. Unfortunately, the individual died for unknown reasons during transportation to the IMRS headquarters. While performing necropsy, a partially digested A. tesselatus (UTEP 22458: 75 mm SVL, 151 mm tail length, 12.0 g) was found in its stomach (Fig. 1). The prey mass to snake mass ratio was ...
