The lot of reptiles, living on earth with man these latter years, is mainly decimation. By an odd eddy in the current of progress, however, some things we do turn out to further the reptile cause. For instance, land reptiles eat whole small animals, and man does a number of things that favor the increase of these. Predator control is one such thing. Quail management in south Georgia has killed off old enemies of rabbits, and the diamondback rattlesnake has now become more plentiful there than anywhere else. Cutover lands generally make better snake and lizard country than original forest, and the borders between woods and fields are also highly productive of reptiles. The gravitation of some kinds of snakes and lizards into and around human abodes was spoken of in another chapter, as was the inadvertent extension of reptile ranges by transportation in the cargoes of commerce.
Besides these more-or-less accidental aids to reptiles, man has erected a few preserves to save threatened species. The islands set aside for the tuatara in New Zealand are the most notable example. The desert tortoise is protected in California, the diamondback terrapin on part of the Atlantic Coast and the Gila monster and horned lizard in Arizona. For a time there was a python preserve.
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