Thursday, September 18, 2008

SMU professor published in Northeastern Naturalist

Dr. Phil Cochran, Biology, has published an article titled “A cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus) in Minnesota, and historical reports of other pit vipers unexpected in the Upper Midwest” in the journal Northeastern Naturalist (15:461-464). The cottonmouth in question was carried to Winona on a barge originally loaded in Louisiana and transported up the Mississippi River.