Snakes in mysterious global decline (BBC)

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By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News

Snakes may be declining across the world, according to a global study.

Researchers examined records for 17 snake populations covering eight species over the last few decades, and found most had declined markedly.

For reasons that are not entirely clear, some populations shrank in number abruptly around 1998.

Writing in the journal Biology Letters, the researchers describe the findings as "alarming" but say much more work is needed to understand the causes.
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"And we don't have a clue what it was about that period of time (around 1998)."
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8727863.stm

[kestrel91316]

1. What's mysterious about it? We are utterly destroying the environment.

We have probably wiped out most of their prey.

Humans are thoughtless and clueless.