SDSU, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Join Forces to Track Rattlesnakes

Using Acceleration Technology and Machine Learning Tools, the Team Monitors Snake Behaviors as Part of Conservation Effort

San Diego State University and San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance (SDZWA) are joining forces to usher in a new way of studying snakes. In a collaboration between SDSU professor of biology Rulon Clark and SDZWA, biologists are tagging wild rattlesnakes with external transmitters and accelerometers. 

Previously, telemetry devices on snakes had to be surgically implanted — severely limiting this area of study. SDSU and SDZWA are among the first to use acceleration technology to study snakes.

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