I have a photograph of a squirrel eating a dead bird. This doesn't make it "common".
While many nocturnal snakes are found during the day, Emeralds do not hunt by day...ever. If you see an emerald in the wild moving during daylight hours, something disturbed it and this is not normal behavior.
The stomach contents of the emeralds in the link you posted is from Dr Robert Henderson. If you will notice, it was all rice rats other than a skink found in one baby emerald. Monkeys, bats and birds were reported by "other authors"...again...these other authors could be chimps on crack for all we know.
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My question would be then why do you feel burrowing is so much more important than surface temperatures that allow for normal digestion or fever like immune responses.
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When did I say any such thing? I don't recall outlining which is most important and I don't recall ever saying that proper temps aren't important.
Since you bring it up though, to many snakes burrowing is more important. Obviously your experience is based solely on a couple of species. There are many snakes that require NO special heating. Anything in the 70s and in some cases the 60s is not only fine but required and burrowing to most fossorial species is indeed much more important than basking. When's the last time you saw a basking ringneck snake?
