27/12/2011 – Day 3
11:00
No wonder we couldn’t find it yesterday! The forest Cobra has moved to the other side of the property (and in a different direction to the one it was heading on release day).
Using our telelmetry equipment we located Forest Cobra 01 – FC01 to a region of bush to the south of our property. Trekking into the bush we located FC01 to an area where we felled a non-indigenous cactus tree, walking around the tree to see if we could get a glimpse of FC01 we were ecstatic to see a little Forest Cobra face peeking out at us from the trees above us. FC01 had managed to find an area of lower humidity with a little breeze 400m from his release site.
We were looking for FC01, but it was already watching us!
Even a large Forest Cobra, is well camoflagued and at home in trees.
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