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about 95% of the snakes the sanctuary picks up are Western Diamondbacks. "These other ones are kind of rare, so you'd have to be up against a rocky mountain to have them in your yard," Morris said.
"This method increases the time window available for biologists to detect snakes in their natural habitats," said lead author Leah Samuels of the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station.