Tracking the Snakes<br /><span style="font-size:0.8em;">Emily Taylor, Assistant professor of Biological Sciences at Cal Poly, uses an antenna to track snakes that had been previously implanted with radio transmitters, as she and research associate Marty Feldner hunt for the Northern Pacific rattlesnake in the Carrizo Plain.<br /><br /><br />Copyright © The Tribune/Joe Johnston. All rights reserved</span> • <a style="font-size:0.8em;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/98558265@N00/2217506736/" target="_blank">View on Flickr</a>
Handle With Care<br /><span style="font-size:0.8em;">Emily Taylor, Assistant professor of Biological Sciences at Cal Poly, and research associate Marty Feldner pull out a Northern Pacific rattlesnake from between some rocks to see if it is a female that they were hoping to find and tag while snake hunting in the Carrizo Plain.<br /><br /><br />Copyright © The Tribune/Joe Johnston. All rights reserved</span> • <a style="font-size:0.8em;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/98558265@N00/2217507706/" target="_blank">View on Flickr</a>
A Female Rattler<br /><span style="font-size:0.8em;">A female Northern Pacific rattlesnake flicks her tongue in the air after being captured in the Carrizo Plain.<br /><br /><br />Copyright © The Tribune/Joe Johnston. All rights reserved</span> • <a style="font-size:0.8em;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/98558265@N00/2217508734/" target="_blank">View on Flickr</a>
Into the Tube Then Into the Bag<br /><span style="font-size:0.8em;">Emily Taylor, Assistant professor of Biological Sciences at Cal Poly, holds a female Northern Pacific rattlesnake that she put in a tube so it could be handled safely as research associate Marty Feldner looks on.<br /><br /><br />Copyright © The Tribune/Joe Johnston. All rights reserved</span> • <a style="font-size:0.8em;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/98558265@N00/2216716577/" target="_blank">View on Flickr</a>