Movement
We found that, annually, non-gravid females traveled an average of 54.36 ± 34.06 m between successive relocations, and males traveled an average of 62.73 ± 48.43 m (Table 6). Using an ANOVA comparing the effects of sex, season, and the interaction of the effects of sex and season on the average distances moved between successive relocations indicated a significant difference for only the effect of season (N=9; Sex: F1,79,0.05= 1.447, p= 0.233; season: F3,79,0.05= 17.397, p< 0.001; interaction: F3,79,0.05=0.516, p= 0.672). We concluded that snakes in this population moved significantly longer distances in summer and fall than winter and spring (Table 7, Fig. 7) using the a posterioriBonferroni pairwise comparison of the effect of season on average distance moved between successive relocations.
We also found that male and female snakes did not statistically differ in their average distances moved during any season (Table 8). Both male and female snakes shared the same annual trend, increasing distance moved between successive relocations from winter to fall (Fig. 8).