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- June 25th, 2019, 2:22 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Recent Kansas Trip! (part 1)
- Replies: 5
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- May 23rd, 2019, 7:41 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Virginia Copperhead
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3830
Re: Virginia Copperhead
Nice! I love copperheads from the NE.
- May 12th, 2019, 9:50 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Two Snail-eaters from Ecuador
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Two Snail-eaters from Ecuador
This is the only specimen of Dipsas variegata that has been recorded in Ecuador, found in Napo province in the Amazon.
Dipsas gracilis having a snail snack near Mindo
Dipsas gracilis having a snail snack near Mindo
- February 26th, 2019, 12:25 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Ecuador Herping Suggestions
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9820
Re: Ecuador Herping Suggestions
Hey Jack, FYI a truck from Quito to Coca runs $140-180. Don't have rec for lodges with herp guides, sometimes its nice to have a guide who knows the trails even if they don't know much else. Not sure you need to go far down river, but others may disagree. I just spent some time in the area that was ...
- February 26th, 2019, 11:56 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Rare Mountain Snakes in Hong Kong
- Replies: 12
- Views: 18208
Re: Rare Mountain Snakes in Hong Kong
WOW, amazing snakes and pictures. I need to make it to HK soon!
I was hoping to make it this fall, but looks like most my time will be in Fujian Province again.
I was hoping to make it this fall, but looks like most my time will be in Fujian Province again.
- January 18th, 2019, 10:44 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Sarawak Amphibians 2018
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4769
Re: Sarawak Amphibians 2018
Great post, I really like the Staurois guttatus
- January 18th, 2019, 10:39 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Lyciasalamandra frenzy - SW Turkey, December 2018
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3476
Re: Lyciasalamandra frenzy - SW Turkey, December 2018
Amazing trip report. I was unaware of the salamander diversity in Turkey. Great pictures I really like the Lyciasalamandra antalyana antalyana.
Best,
Dan
Best,
Dan
- January 18th, 2019, 10:31 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Thailand Snakes part 1
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4595
Re: Thailand Snakes part 1
Great stuff, looks like you had a good time.
Thanks for sharing.
Dan
Thanks for sharing.
Dan
- October 2nd, 2018, 8:59 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Shiripuno Amazon Lodge, Ecuador (Part 2)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 14427
Re: Shiripuno Amazon Lodge, Ecuador (Part 2)
Osteocephalus in that area are quite variable and can be difficult depending on the pictures. The key characteristics are iris pattern and/or color, sometimes what color the bones in the hind legs are or webbing between the toes helps. I've never tried looking at bone color. Reading species descript...
- September 25th, 2018, 7:40 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Shiripuno Amazon Lodge, Ecuador (Part 2)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 14427
Re: Shiripuno Amazon Lodge, Ecuador (Part 2)
That Hemiphractus and Rhaebo are amazing.
Yes that frog is L. wagneri
Allobates are a pain.
Dan
Yes that frog is L. wagneri
Allobates are a pain.
Dan
- July 30th, 2018, 9:58 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Herping Trip June/July 2018 (lots of pics!)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7302
Re: Borneo Herping Trip June/July 2018
Very cool, great variety of herps and awesome shots as usual.
Dan
Dan
- July 12th, 2018, 2:50 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: rarest snake in Northeastern US?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6478
Re: rarest snake in Northeastern US?
Fox Snakes species are now roughly divided by the Mississippi River, so Eastern Fox Snake now has a wide range and is not rare.
- July 12th, 2018, 9:51 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Sulawesi 2018
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6454
Re: Sulawesi 2018
Thanks for sharing this. Looks like a great trip to a part of the world I don't know much about. Siau Island sounds like quite the place to visit.
Dan
Dan
- June 25th, 2018, 7:17 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Herping Ecuador
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6861
Re: Herping Ecuador
Looks like you found some cool animals. If you go back to spend more time herping you should contact Eric Osterman, who runs Mindo Night Walks.
I'm pretty sure I have pictures of the same Basilisk on the same rock.
Dan
I'm pretty sure I have pictures of the same Basilisk on the same rock.
Dan
- June 20th, 2018, 9:24 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Ecuador Trip (Reposted)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5576
Re: Ecuador Trip (Reposted)
Frog 1: Boana boans, Gladiator Treefrog Frog 3: Dendropsophus, hard to tell probably triangulum. There are several species around Tena and all are quite variable. Frog 4: Leptodactylus lineatus Frog 5: Phyllomedusa, maybe tarsius Snake 1: Helicops angulatus, Brown-banded Watersnake Snake 2: Leptodie...
- June 18th, 2018, 9:20 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Moloch, Morelia and more, the Red Centre, Aus.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11780
Re: Moloch, Morelia and more, the Red Centre, Aus.
Awesome stuff, love the bredli.
Dan
Dan
- May 22nd, 2018, 8:13 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Great wall of China
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6504
Re: Great wall of China
Beauty Snake aka Blue Beauty Ratsnake. Orthriophis taeniurus or Elaphe taeniura depending on which taxonomy you follow.
Dan
Dan
- May 21st, 2018, 12:03 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Amphibians from Colombia
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4665
Re: Amphibians from Colombia
Howdy,
The Peirera specimen will be hard, other than pristimantis sp.
Casanare:
The first is probably Leptodactylus leptodactyloides and last is Scinax ruber or similar species.
Dan
The Peirera specimen will be hard, other than pristimantis sp.
Casanare:
The first is probably Leptodactylus leptodactyloides and last is Scinax ruber or similar species.
Dan
- April 23rd, 2018, 7:34 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Report Part 2.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3883
Re: Borneo Report Part 2.
Looks like a blast, Pangolin is super cool.
Dan
Dan
- April 6th, 2018, 10:43 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: 4 days and 3 nights in Northeastern Colombia Part 2
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4159
Re: 4 days and 3 nights in Northeastern Colombia Part 2
That Pampas snake is pretty cool. Looks like a lot of fun, I need to get back there.
This is the only frog we found in the park when I was there in 2015. Dendrobates truncatus.
This is the only frog we found in the park when I was there in 2015. Dendrobates truncatus.
- March 16th, 2018, 7:52 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Galapagos, Southern Ecuador, and Tarapoto
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4707
Re: Galapagos, Southern Ecuador, and Tarapoto
Thanks for sharing this, although I'm not sure I'll be jumping on a bus to Santa Isabel anytime soon.
Never realized a Friaje caused that cool of temps, I'd have been pretty disappointed if that happened when I was visiting the Amazon.
Dan
Never realized a Friaje caused that cool of temps, I'd have been pretty disappointed if that happened when I was visiting the Amazon.
Dan
- January 26th, 2018, 12:49 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: 4 days and 3 nights in Northeastern Colombia Part 1
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6030
Re: 4 days and 3 nights in Northeastern Colombia Part 1
Cool stuff, thanks for sharing. Is part 2 in Tayrona well. You did much better with snakes than me on my two nights in the park, I think we only had a tree boa and a Bothrops asper.
Dan
Dan
- January 24th, 2018, 9:55 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Taiwan 2017 roundup
- Replies: 8
- Views: 17087
Re: Taiwan 2017 roundup
Great post, thanks for putting in the time to share your pictures. One of these days I'll have to stop visiting Latin America and make it over that way, lots of cool stuff.
Dan
Dan
- January 24th, 2018, 9:53 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Update on my milk snake that came home after escaping!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9404
Re: Update on my milk snake that came home after escaping!
Very interesting observations Gary.
Dan
Dan
- July 13th, 2017, 2:14 pm
- Forum: Fish Forum
- Topic: Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea various fish/fishing
- Replies: 1
- Views: 12464
Re: Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea various fish/fishing
Amazing, looks like a place I need to spend winter! I'd love to snorkel around that pool by the cascade.
Dan
Dan
- July 13th, 2017, 10:10 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Arenal Lodge and Hacienda Baru Lodge Advice Request (w/pics)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3698
Re: Arenal Lodge and Hacienda Baru Lodge Advice Request (w/p
Not sure "RothDigga" is very active anymore, he took the pictures the same place I mentioned. https://www.paraisoquetzal.com/en/hotel.php
Dan
Dan
- July 10th, 2017, 10:51 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Arenal Lodge and Hacienda Baru Lodge Advice Request (w/pics)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3698
Re: Arenal Lodge and Hacienda Baru Lodge Advice Request (w/p
Howdy, If you have time and depending how much they want to charge you to enter you might consider stopping at Parque Nacional Carara. I went for a short hike there and saw some cool birds, including nesting Scarlet Macaw. Pull over to the side of the road when crossing the River Tarcoles and check ...
Re: Peru
Your two amphibians look like Trachycephalus typhonius (Pepper Treefrog, Amazon Milk Frog, several common names) and Rhinella marina (Cane Toad).
- February 13th, 2017, 7:38 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Question about snakes and a snake workshop in Manila
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3423
Re: Question about snakes and a snake workshop in Manila
Glad I could help, good luck with the presentation. Thanks for spending the time to educate the local community.
- January 23rd, 2017, 12:01 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Question about snakes and a snake workshop in Manila
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3423
Re: Question about snakes and a snake workshop in Manila
You should contact Rafe Brown at KU, he has done extensive work in the Philippines. https://biodiversity.ku.edu/herpetology
Dan
Dan
Re: 2016
Awesome stuff, I'm going to be in the Choco around San Lorenzo over Xmas.
- November 23rd, 2016, 9:14 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: anyone been to Leticia, Colombia?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3785
Re: anyone been to Leticia, Colombia?
I have not been to Leticia, but did travel around Colombia in 2015. I would suggest looking up Oswaldo Cortes from Birding Bogota, he has an interest in herps as well as birds and may have some insight. The first Colombian congress of Herpetology is going on in Medellin right now at Parque Explora F...
- June 2nd, 2016, 10:53 am
- Forum: Fish Forum
- Topic: 3 Interesting Fish!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 13368
Re: 3 Interesting Fish!
Blacknose Crappie are mostly what the DNR seems to be stocking here in Central Illinois. I've caught a couple hundred so far this year.
- April 4th, 2016, 12:35 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Fungal Disease in Wild Snakes?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10915
Re: Fungal Disease in Wild Snakes?
The other three for Bryan: Matthew C. Allender, Christopher A. Phillips, Sarah J. Baker, Daniel B. Wylie, Amy Narotsky, and Michael J. Dreslik (2016) HEMATOLOGY IN AN EASTERN MASSASAUGA (SISTRURUS CATENATUS) POPULATION AND THE EMERGENCE OF OPHIDIOMYCES IN ILLINOIS, USA. Journal of Wildlife Diseases ...
- April 1st, 2016, 12:25 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Fungal Disease in Wild Snakes?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10915
Re: Fungal Disease in Wild Snakes?
The paper was posted because it is open source and provides many good references on the topic SFD and zoonotic diseases in reptiles. It is possible that SFD could enter captive snake populations and that these snakes could be released and could spread SFD. In the same way it is possible to ship some...
- March 29th, 2016, 7:27 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Fungal Disease in Wild Snakes?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10915
Re: Fungal Disease in Wild Snakes?
There is absolutely no evidence it had anything to do with released pets, that was an opinion piece that was lacking any real scientific evidence from a non-biologist. Any herpetologists that think that have no idea what they are talking about. Here's an open source article on SFD. Good references a...
- November 25th, 2014, 8:12 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Question: Travelling and herping in Columbia
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4785
Re: Question: Travelling and herping in Columbia
Howdy, Will be able to provide better details in February 2015 from my trip. From my research if you want to do it on the cheap, Leticia seems like the place to go. I'm flying into Mitu in early January, about $300-350 round trip from BOG. Due to security issues and lack of vehicles Mitu is not part...
- November 10th, 2014, 12:04 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: RFI: Colombia
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1856
RFI: Colombia
Howdy,
Planning a trip to Colombia in January. Anyone have experience herping and birding around Leticia or Santa Marta. Or suggestions on where else might be productive herp wise.
Thanks,
Dan
Planning a trip to Colombia in January. Anyone have experience herping and birding around Leticia or Santa Marta. Or suggestions on where else might be productive herp wise.
Thanks,
Dan
- October 11th, 2013, 7:23 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: South Africa- Sept. 2013...cobras and other cool critters...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5797
Re: South Africa- Sept. 2013...cobras and other cool critter
Was your boat driver a zulu named Jonathan when you saw the nile?
That's very likely one of my friends marked crocs.
That's very likely one of my friends marked crocs.
- October 8th, 2013, 7:59 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Just a few swedish herps
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1648
Re: Just a few swedish herps
Great shots of the Hyla!
- October 8th, 2013, 7:57 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Some amphibians in Taiwan and Scotland
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1925
Re: Some amphibians in Taiwan and Scotland
Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed seeing some different herps and scenery then is typically shown here.
Dan
Dan
- August 28th, 2013, 11:03 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: RFI: Utah DOR salvage and tissue samples
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2177
Re: RFI: Utah DOR salvage and tissue samples
Thanks Brian, I appreciate the links and your interpretation. Not targeting anything specific, most reptile and amphibian loan requests I get throughout the year are for tissue samples these days. So, if I know I'm traveling somewhere interesting out of state or to a place that likely has not been s...
- August 28th, 2013, 9:26 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: RFI: Utah DOR salvage and tissue samples
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2177
RFI: Utah DOR salvage and tissue samples
Howdy, Probably being over optimistic that I will encounter much herpetofauna and likely should just stick to fishing, but I have a few quick questions. I was hoping some of the Utah residents could give me some quick insight into salvaging DOR specimens. As a non resident passing through next week ...
- December 31st, 2012, 10:35 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Costa Rica wedding ?s
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1699
Re: Costa Rica wedding ?s
http://www.haciendabaru.com/ Got married there on the beach 2 years ago, it was amazing. Been meaning to post about it. It was cheap, the owner arranged a shuttle pickup from SJO for most of our party. Miles of trails, decent number of herps. Found Tree boas and caiman every night as well as vine sn...
- November 1st, 2012, 6:31 pm
- Forum: Herpetoculture Forum
- Topic: Savu Pythons hatching..
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2153
Re: Savu Pythons hatching..
Nice looking snakes, congrats
- September 3rd, 2012, 2:20 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Something in all this heat
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3610
Re: Something in all this heat
That's a nice looking yellow-bellied kingsnake you found there.
- August 10th, 2012, 7:27 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Hog from Central IL
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1860
Re: Hog from Central IL
Sorry for the slow response Justin, I do not have any habitat shots and have not been to the park where the snake was caught and released. It was brought in to show the U of I herpetology class. I do know however that it was sandy oak woods with small vernal pools.
Dan
Dan
- July 24th, 2012, 9:42 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Hog from Central IL
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1860
Hog from Central IL
Hard to believe a snake like this could be found in Illinois.
- June 30th, 2012, 11:00 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Dispatches #45: The Saga of Snake And Pangolin
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11015
Re: Borneo Dispatches #45: The Saga of Snake And Pangolin
Amazing!! I can't stop re-opening this post to look at the little pangolin.
- June 30th, 2012, 10:58 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Just for Fun: Life Lists
- Replies: 43
- Views: 23230
Re: Just for Fun: Life Lists
Are you guys just typing these lists out and keeping them in a word document?