{"id":147,"date":"2010-10-26T14:40:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T19:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/?p=147"},"modified":"2013-06-03T22:31:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T03:31:29","slug":"lack-of-rain-puts-animals-on-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/field-notes\/lack-of-rain-puts-animals-on-the-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of rain puts animals on the move."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong class=\"Dateline\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-148\" title=\"dead-snake\" src=\"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dead-snake-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"dead-snake\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dead-snake-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/dead-snake.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. &#8212; <\/strong>Dry weather like  what has hit northeast Florida over the past few weeks is known to  bring Florida&#8217;s wildlife out, especially reptiles.<\/p>\n<p>If it doesn&#8217;t start raining soon, it&#8217;s likely residents will see a lot<strong> more snakes <\/strong>and other <strong>wildlife<\/strong> on the move. Heather  Ogler, who enjoys taking her children outside in the sun, said she&#8217;s  worried about their safety knowing the drought may bring the<strong> wildlife<\/strong> out. Ogler said she&#8217;s had wildlife coming close to her family&#8217;s home in her Fernandina Beach neighborhood.&#8221; Two separate occasions we had two <strong>bobcats<\/strong> come and look into the house,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>As  the skies remain clear and blue and the rain sparse, <strong>animal experts<\/strong> said it&#8217;s likely residents may have similar experiences to what Ogler  described. &#8220;It does appear that it is happening more often,  especially with the gators more so than the<strong> snakes<\/strong>,&#8221; said Dino Ferri, a  reptile expert at the Jacksonville Zoo. Ferri said he hasn&#8217;t necessarily seen a change in animal behavior, but is hearing about it from other experts. A  <strong>snake was spotted <\/strong>outside Channel 4&#8217;s building Monday night. While  Ferri believes it is a<strong> nonvenomous water snake<\/strong>, he said it was probably  searching for a larger body of water than the ponds near the TV station. <strong>Encountering  animals<\/strong> in not-so-wild places isn&#8217;t uncommon, but many <strong>animal experts <\/strong> believe <strong>wildlife encounters<\/strong> may be on the rise if rain doesn&#8217;t fall  soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it doesn&#8217;t start raining soon, it&#8217;s likely residents will see a lot more snakes and other wildlife on the move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.floridawildlifetrapper.com\/flnwr_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}