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In article <5vv37e$s1f$2@ralph.vnet.net>, jasher <jasher@vnet.net> wrote:
>
>Tom Wilson (sasctw@duckhead.unx.sas.com) expostulated:
>: Seth Fehrs  <fehrs002@mc.duke.edu> wrote:
>: >Tom Wilson wrote:
>: >> 
>: >> Errr, then why have I heard a rattler in the weeds out by Hemlock
>: >> Bluff?  I'm from Eastern NC--believe me when I say I know what it
>: >> sounds like.
>: >
>: >Range:  Coastal lowlands from se. N. Carolina to extr. E. Louisiana; 
>: >all of Florida, including the Keys.
>: 
>: Mr. Fehrs:
>: 
>: I grew up in southeastern NC, where rattlers were quite plentiful.
>: I KNOW what they sound like, I KNOW what I heard.  Quoting 
>: territorial ranges is well and good, but animals are notorious 
>: for ignoring discrete boundaries noted by humans, and, besides,
>: we're still on the the edge of the Diamondbacks' (and possibly
>: the Timber rattler's) range.  It's also not unusual to find ecotones 
>: very unlike surrounding terrain in the triangle (what ones that haven't 
>: been developed away, that is).
>
>Does NCSU count as an ecotone?  That would explain a lot. :=)

I'm not sure that would explain NCSU...it's more like an alternate  
reality...hmmmm...maybe it's a _paranormal_ ecotone %-O

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