Appendix D. Transcript of Erika – So what does it look like to you guys? Participants – Eels. Erika – It looks like an eel? Participant – Uh huh. Erika – But what is it really? Participant – Salamander. Erika – It’s a salamander. So these are the largest salamanders in North America. Leader – They can reach sizes of up to 48 inches. This is a pretty good guy here. As you can see, well, I don’t know if you can see, but right here, see that little appendage right there? Participant – Yeah. Leader – With two little itty bitty toes? Can y’all see that? Participant – Yeah. Leader – Can everybody see that? Erika – He’s got two back here and two up front. Leader – See that little foot right there? That little itty bitty foot? Erika – And this guys called a two-toed amphiuma. So like I was saying earlier, he’s got six rows of teeth and they’re all segmented so they’re broken up, so he may have two on this side, two on this side, and two in the middle but they’re all broken up. Leader – So what would you think that these guys eat? Participant – Small fish. Leader – Small fish, yeah. What else would live back in this area that they might like to eat? Participant – Frogs. Leader – Frogs? Yeah. With six rows of teeth they can pretty much eat anything, right? Their main forage is usually crayfish. You know, crayfish have shells but it’s nothing for them to crunch through those shells with six rows of teeth. Erika – These guys are mostly active at night. When there’s heavy, when there’s a lot of heavy rain they can cross over roads to the other side and they’ll go to, like, a ditch or something. Leader – How do you think these guys breath? Participant – Lungs.
And the interesting thing about it is we get varied results on that, our results are not necessarily clear cut. The main conclusion that I have come to over three or four years is that frog tadpoles seem to be attracted to baited traps and I can’t tell much difference between any of the other animals. They seem to go into the other two kinds of traps almost equally. Ok, so that’s a little bit about experimental design. Appendix F. Transcript of Erika – You’ve seen them? So you guys know what they look like? Participant – Yeah. Erika – So who wants to give me a brief description? Go ahead Emily. Emily – I don’t know, they can swim into it but they can get out. Erika – What shape does it tend to be? Participant – Like a cone. Erika – Like a cone? Ok, so, why can they swim in and not out? Emily – The shape of it… Participant – It kinda funnels them in. Erika – It funnels in, that’s right. So this is what your basic minnow trap is gonna look like. I know that they have different sizes for these, you can get ones with bigger holes and ones with smaller holes. What do you notice that we put in all our traps that you’ve seen? Participant – A bottle so it floats. Erika – We put a bottle so it floats. Why do we want it to float? Emily – So that they can get air. Erika – So they can get air? Ok. Participant – So it’s not sitting on the bottom. Erika – So it’s not sitting on the bottom, ok. And we don’t want anything in here that needs air to drown, right? Ok so when you set a trap like this, how often do you want to check it? Participant – Every day. Erika – Everyday, how many times a day do you think? Participant – Probably twice. Erika – Once or twice a day, why do we want to do that? Participant – To make sure that, if you do have something in there that you take it out.