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Whatever his personality disorder is, he deserves consequences for the way he treated that snake.

The way he treated the snake actually does classify as violence.

I'm glad you made this video. You could have went after him worse, but it doesn't matter.

His cats out of the bag.

When a person says "Someone asked me to tell..etc"

It is a sure sign of weakness in ones own words having the ability to stand on their own.

The same weakness that lends to crude and cruel behavior towards animals.

I think its awareness provoking to be reminded that 50% of the population has to overtly or unconsciously factor in the risk of danger, bodily harm and even being killed, as an every day potential, especially alone, walking at night etc. Just to take a walk in the middle of the night, say to get a b...

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January 13th, 2020, 5:53 pm

Maybe a shrew.

Yeah huh.

Poor little sally buck

I have seen that kind of a gnaw pattern in an escaped leopard gecko due to rats in the store. If there is a waterway near, do you think it possible? How well known is the congregation spot? Is it possible kids might collect them and re release them in feature? A salamander perhaps would not fare wel...

No way of knowing but I think a crayfish is a possibility.

100% sure its cristatella, actually.

I based my ID on my own intimate visual exposure of a cristatella in my charge for many years.

I still think that's what your girl on the leaves is, but can't answer your questions about range or introduction.

The gracile little green agamid on the leaves is a Bronchocela cristatella, female.

Im pretty sure Ryan knows what is happening on this thread. He obviously spends alot of time online.

As someone who no longer has my father in the world, if I were to more deeply reflect, what I wrote is pretty mitigated in comparison to what could have been said.

My son Ryan in Utah has been researching the issue of climate change which in turn has spurred me into becoming better informed. It was Ryan that provided me with the link in my previous post. Yesterday, he provided me with the following link: https://www.friendsofscience.org/ How generous of him ....

And again I am left to wonder if the username is a typo.

The Friends of Science Society are funded by the fossil fuel industry.

Actually I think that makes FSS, BFF with those guys not Science.

When denial and paranoia mix we get conspiratorial soup in a microwave bowl ala internet.

Interesting to explore, there is a psychology to climate change denial and though my foray has been casual so far - unlike the spokesmen deniers, the experts are not self appointed.

Its game-ish and childish to disrespect the time and discourse of another person so flagrantly.

If you have an open mind, doesn't that mean you respond to the other persons items of examination? all I read is a kind of relentless repetition prefacing the latest stuff you have googled holding up the "fence" you say you are on, and have ignored dozens of good points directed right to you. it is ...

If you would have dabbed it with a damp kleenex and went to dinner, no one would have ever known.

Back to topic it would be cool to see some photos sometime.

I have since the beginning thought how forums like this could be a revolutionary tool. But only if we are interested in it being that.

Oh man you are most welcome. Love conversing with you Daniel. I would like to more. As time goes on, and internet market fervor seeps hints of a darkish, competitive yet fact-unaccountable pitch generally I worry more about non biological things in/on my feeders. I like knowing the truth and I will ...

Frozen animals decompose so much quicker than pre killed for the same break down reason. I remember having a fun 'imagine this' about futuristic Herpetoculture.. Imagine growing bio replica of different prey - ala ranid, hylid, saurian, ophidian food globs. Stimulating idea for a thread, in my minds...

The longer and colder you freeze yer feeders, while not allowing them to lose quality thru freezer burn (when organic matter meets oxygen and freezing temps) the more the cell membranes of the unwanted disintegrate on thawing.

When I was just a kid, teenager I volunteered at a Nature Center and thought up a way to get some WC little sidewinders to eat by putting them in their ventilated feeding containers with pinkies Inside the sceloperus display. Later I duplicated it somewhat with lizard eating wc snakes, colubrids, an...

Leopard frogs unfortunate enough to find themselves in the trade are hyperbolic slippery rockets of prey item self-awareness. Still, I have seen them at rest, basking. Beautiful lit from within luminescence turning on in chromatophore. Like polished mineral, the skin of many frogs become gem like wh...

There are things about pithing, and really if you break it down it really seems like one of those things where theory and practice arent holding tight hands. When your using something small, your shot has to be well, you get it. Thanks for the article on freezing, Bill. I think its vital not to sett...

Swamp Snake. Art.

Well, I think it takes a certain righteousness to choose and provide for a Plated Lizard. They are under rated lizards and their trust takes special patience. There is a dignity about them.

I hope all is well with you both.

The dramatic flair unmatched in other lizard groups imo! Hey excuse the double up of posts, old device becoming more and more uncooperative But I wanted to say hi Scott and Noah and Chris too (You too Jimi) I like the collab opportunity we have here and the follow ups. We should do more - I would fo...

Cool Scott, plus there's the pleasure of keeping a group of Anoles.

I still think its a good shot behaviorally.

Pretty is fine but discreet scope into the life of, is forever.

Word UP

what a beautiful sight Kfen

If your animal has some version of hypercalcemia, it can be mitigated, it can get better. Lots of water, including wetting his food, good lighting for health and enrichment, especially appreciated on all levels by reptiles near the equator, and dont feel too responsible as the directions on reptile ...

Well, I think you both will dig it,, no matter what. He will strike poses lol

Besides lipid deposits metabolic byproduct can accumulate in the organs and the eyes become windows to condition.

If I were you I would switch to uvb sources of d3 provision as a safer and self regulating form of its provision. It may not get better but it may stave progression

Oh wow Chris. From what I see in the pics, it looks like corneal opacities, that are lipid deposits that show in the eye and ive seen it in long term captive plumed basilisks, horned frogs, and ackies. its not an infection but is strongly suspected to be dietary in origin, often mistaken for catarac...

checking to see if perhaps its just a passing glitch on my end (the images) but still not coming up for me on this thing. Hey hope your animal gets better. He can. I had a leo brought in with both eyes sealed shut from being in the garbage (not exaggerating - superstitious old person something about...

Dont stop treating the eye and do the full series of the meds prescribed. The only harm that could come with empirical treatment would be to stop it prematurely. No matter what the exact cause is. Just a note, not knowing your practices - Do not feed live rodents beyond fuzzy size to lizards. In pan...

Your images dont come up for me Chris. Basic Eye Injury/Infection protocol is to remove particulate sub from the environment and check hiding areas for interior repeat contact areas that can re offend the affected eye. Strong lizards can self injure on artifacts seeking security. Eye problems cause ...

There are some cool (no pun intended :crazyeyes: ) articles on 'anti-freeze' glycoproteins in the blood of Garters, frogs and turtles, fish in Arctic waters have this mechanism too, I dont know if knowledge of the fish anti freeze blood pre dates our knowledge of it in herps, but I wouldnt be surpri...

It did make me wonder if "Carbon Tax" is an influential feature in some peoples viewpoint selections.

Climate etc, read specious, with broad inflammatory strokes that referred to "It" (the scientific "establishment" shying away from names or specifics, unconfidently. It wasn't convincing enough because of that. Sample reader here. I dont see much other commentary so perhaps you should heed what ya g...

[quote For every Curry there are about 49 (literally, about 49) other exceptionally-qualified people who disagree. All 50 have their reasons for believing what they believe; I don't think ANY of them are liars, or completely right, or completely wrong. It just amazes me that you're not swayed by th...

When people become zombified in repetition, and blithe in self awareness something else in going on and I think its time to head out to healthier places.

Have fun

TBH, I'm more interested in the psychological ecology on this loamy rich and fecund thread, than Climate Change - The Subject.

I think you have the right to say publicly that you dont believe the dominant consensus. I have a different opinion about some things too that are widely accepted, things not as important as climate change though. Im adding this because I know what its like to have a compelling mental pull in the op...

Im moved. There is a spirit and relevance in your photography I get the feeling that if there were no internet sharing, your work would still be just as honed and your understanding of your subjects just as keen.

Even if no one would see it, it would still be done like this.

The thing that kind of bugs is stating repeatedly that you are 'On the fence" when clearly you are not. As usual we have received the inside gears, hard-matter info, in this and tangential stuff from Jimi while you seem to be scouring google for every speck of contrarian material - or items of conte...

I wonder if we will ever have a scientist as a president. We have a real estate mogul/reality tv star, so stranger things have happened.

Right shapin' Hardchaw !!

It's not a healthy development.

I dont have alot of money but I would be happy if any of my tax dollars went to grants to pay scientists to study this and any herpetological/ecological/biological hygiene endeavor.

If someone is resistant to accepting that anthropogenic impacts have negative consequences because it aligns with their personal ideologies or agendas or political traditions, that seems like a block to understanding, as reality, Earth, has nothing to do with our belief systems, or the way we may wa...