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One GPS Pin Can Empty a Snake Den

STOP POSTING SNAKE LOCATIONS

A short from AnimalDex, from How to Keep a Herping Field Journal. Every claim in it comes from that page, which has the full detail and sources.

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Published 26 October 2026. AI-narrated, with motion added to some images.

Transcript

  1. 0:00STOP POSTING SNAKE LOCATIONS. One GPS pin can empty an entire snake den.
  2. 0:03Pet-trade targets. Adder dens and rare turtle ponds were emptied by people reading exact locations online.
  3. 0:09#1 rule at the end. Keep the exact spot private. And the number one rule for frogs? It comes last.
  4. 0:152 metres away. Never touch it. A photo from two metres and a few numbers is a full entry.
  5. 0:1915–30 °C. Write the air temperature. Most snakes here are active between roughly 15 and 30 degrees.
  6. 0:245 °C + rain. Toads start migrating on the first rainy evenings above about five degrees.
  7. 0:28Honest ID wins. Can't name the species? Write the group. A wrong name is a guess with a tick.
  8. 0:33Clean boots. Number one: scrub your boots. Chytrid fungus and ranavirus ride on mud between wetlands.

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