Crotalology (RATTLESNAKES) with Emily Taylor

Oh hey, it's a 13-year-old poodle in a baby bjorn. Allie Ward, congratulations, you're here. Let's bust some flimflam with the world's biggest fan and advocate for rattlesnakes. They grew up moving around the country in a Navy family and they've seen so many types of ecology, but they got their PhD from Arizona State University. They're now a professor in the biological sciences at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, the director of the Physical Ecology of Reptiles lab.

They run the Central Coast Snake Services, which helps relocate rattlesnakes so people don't kill them. Also an author of so many papers on rattlesnakes and the books California Snakes and How to Find Them and California Lizards and How to Find Them. They're a co-founder of this year's inaugural Snake Week from July 13th through 19th. And you can find out more at snakeweek.org. They have a bunch of events and webinars.

They also head up Project Rattlecam, which brings you live feeds of rattlesnakes in their natural habitat. It's a joy. I suggest you go check out Project Rattlecam. I had them on a list of mine for years and I finally met up with them in a hotel while we were both in LA.

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