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Global warming beneficial to ratsnakes
2013-01-08 21:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Speculation about how animals will respond to climate change due to global warming led University of Illinois researcher Patrick Weatherhead and his students to conduct a study of ratsnakes at three different latitudes -- Ontario, Illinois, and Texas. His findings suggest that ratsnakes will be able to adapt to the higher temperatures by becoming more active at night. "Ratsnakes are a species with a broad geographic range so we could use latitude as a surrogate for climate change," Weatherhead...
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