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| Close view of the set snare on the rainforest floor in the image above, though in most cases the wire was more obscured by fallen leaves than shown here. A day of walking through the forest checking snares by Papa Jean Marie checked at least 200 of these, and probably twice that number. While the spring power of this snare is provided by a natural (and living) object, the rooted sapling spring, the galvanzed soft iron wire is an import. The replacement of vines or rope snares with wire snares not only increases the effectiveness of the snare (fewer escapes because the wire is stronger, grabs more tightly and cannot be bitten through), but also lasts as long as the spring sapling lasts (months, I suspect) rather than rotting rapidly in the heat and moisture of the forest floor. This means that with wire, Papa Jean Marie is simply a much more efficient predator as measured by numbers of captures per man hour of effort, and/or by the amount of area his snare line can cover. | ||
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