Snakes interrupted: roads causing genetic decline

[Staff]

Snakes interrupted: roads causing genetic decline
in CategoryResearch Briefs | DateFeb 18, 2010
--Reviewed by Rob Goldstein

Snakes interrupted: roads causing genetic decline**** - Front Page - Conservation Maven
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For wildlife like the timber rattlesnsake, trying to cross even light-traffic country roads presents a formidable life-or-death challenge. As a new study in the journal Conservation Biology shows, these roads can also contribute to the genetic decline of the species....

[TimSaupe]

Reminds me of finding the hatchling black rat snake at the mailbox this past year, hit by a car. Poor little bugger. I look forward to finding them on the property in the future though . . .

[milkweed]

I like the guy's comment at the bottom about how snakes need to learn to adapt to road crossing. Here's your sign.

As sad as it is, species need to adapt in situations like this. Without roads, humans couldn't do the things we do.

[TheLorax]

Improperly designed roads can indeed result in genetic decline-
Wildlife crossing road...