May 2009
Cal Poly Rattlesnake Research Project in the News
SAN LUIS OBISPO -- Cal Poly Professor Emily Taylor and her students spend a lot of time in the company of rattlesnakes -- voluntarily.
Taylor and students in Cal Poly’s Physiological Ecology of Reptiles Laboratory have spent the past four years on the Carrizo Plain in east San Luis Obispo County studying rattlesnakes and two species of lizard. Biologists with Cal Poly’s reptile laboratory are stalking the secrets of the Northern Pacific rattlesnake.
Taylor, her students and her research were profiled in the Fall 2007 Cal Poly Magazine -- and again recently in a feature spread in the San Luis Obispo Tribune.
Read the Fall 2007 Cal Poly Magazine Story on Taylor and the Rattlesnake Research
Read the Tribune stories on Taylor and Cal Poly's rattlesnake research project:
Innovative Rattlesnake Research on the Carrizo Plain
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