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Rubber Boa
Rubber Boa
(Charina bottae)
Research Objectives:
To describe habitat use by rubber
boas in Creston Valley and use these findings to predict the effects
of different land use on it's population status.
Preliminary Findings:
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Using radio telemetry to measure
position and body temperature of snakes researchers found:
a) Rubber boas spend most of their time under rock piles in
forest openings but hibernate within the forest in communal
underground dens.
b) They can regulate their body temperature quite precisely
by moving vertically within the soil and by selecting rocks
of the right thickness and heat capacity.
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Using this information we can
begin to preserve this species but much remains to be discovered.
Because it spends most of it's time underground, the rubber
boa is extremely difficult to census and, until we know more
about it, the rubber boa remains Blue-listed or vulnerable.
Funding
or Management Agencies:
Columbia Basin Fish & Wildlife
Compensation Program
University of Northern B.C.
University of Victoria
For more Information on Habits
& Habitat
see the following web site:
Columbia Basin:
Endangered Species & Spaces
For more information on the Tailed
Frog
research projects contact:
Barry Bartlet
Public Relations Dept.
Columbia Basin Fish & Wildlife Compensation Program
St.103 - 333 Victoria St.
Nelson, B.C.
V1L 4K3
Phone: 1-250-352-6874
Fax: 1-250-352-6178
Or get a copy of the Video:
Amphibians and Reptiles of
the Columbia Basin
Bob Sinclair, Phd
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Post Doctoral Fellow
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