Just before classes started my research students (Caitlyn McCall and Ryan Miloshewski) and I, along with a colleague from KU (George Pisani), were consumed by dealing with a problematic study animal. One of the rattlesnakes we track decided to hang out a little too close to a neighbor's home, so we had to rescue her and re-re-locate her to a different site. Before we could do so, we needed to surgically remove the radio-transmitter that allowed us to track her in the first place. The first picture shows George "tubing" her, which entails wrangling her into a tube so we can handle her and anesthetize her prior to surgery. The second picture shows the snake post-op, with me (and Ryan in the background) waiting for her to come out from under the anesthetic, which she soon did. So the surgery was successful and she recovered rapidly enough to be set free a few days later.
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