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Saint Louis Zoo is helping Armenian vipers in the wild

The Saint Louis Zoo's WildCare Institute Center for Conservation in Western Asia has initiated radio-telemetry and mark/recapture studies on Armenian vipers to determine home range size, seasonal activity patterns, habitat preferences and demography. Health assessment data from wild specimens will be used to establish a medical database crucial to the management of captive mountain vipers. Over the past twenty years the combination of habitat alteration and over-collection has drastically reduced mountain viper populations. In fact, five of the eight species of mountain viper are now listed as either vulnerable or endangered. Unless proper equipment, public education and human resources necessary for conducting basic conservation activities is developed, the future of this complex of snakes will continue to lose critical "safety nets" for its survival. Read more about the conservation of Armenian vipers at http://www.stlzoo.org/conservation/wi... Video courtesy KMOV Channel 4.