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- January 28th, 2023, 8:40 pm
- Forum: Reading Room
- Topic: [NEW BOOK] A Greenhorn Naturalist in Borneo - OUT NOW!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4623
Re: [NEW BOOK] A Greenhorn Naturalist in Borneo - OUT NOW!
Thank you - I sent you a mail!
- January 26th, 2023, 4:38 am
- Forum: Reading Room
- Topic: [NEW BOOK] A Greenhorn Naturalist in Borneo - OUT NOW!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4623
Re: [NEW BOOK] A Greenhorn Naturalist in Borneo - OUT NOW!
Wow, thank you for your very kind and encouraging words! I moved back to Taiwan three years ago, but if you like, I can give you tips and introduce you to people in Borneo that will help you. PM me your email!
Cheers
Hans
Cheers
Hans
- December 4th, 2022, 2:27 am
- Forum: Reading Room
- Topic: [NEW BOOK] A Greenhorn Naturalist in Borneo - OUT NOW!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4623
[NEW BOOK] A Greenhorn Naturalist in Borneo - OUT NOW!
Hi all, some of you might remember that after four years of herping here in Taiwan, creating a website on the island's snakes , and writing a book about my exploits , I moved with my family to Malaysian Borneo for eight years. Well, The wait is finally over - A Greenhorn Naturalist in Borneo , my ch...
- May 12th, 2022, 10:19 pm
- Forum: Reading Room
- Topic: "A Greenhorn Naturalist in Borneo" - Pre-order Now :)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4781
"A Greenhorn Naturalist in Borneo" - Pre-order Now :)
Hi all, some of you might remember that after four years of herping here in Taiwan, creating a website on the island's snakes , and writing a book about my exploits , I moved with my family to Malaysian Borneo for eight years. A Greenhorn Naturalist in Borneo , my chronicles about our encounters wit...
- November 27th, 2021, 6:42 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: The Snake in the Monkey Cup – A Greenhorn Naturalist in Borneo
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3323
Re: The Snake in the Monkey Cup – A Greenhorn Naturalist in Borneo
Very good question - let me ask!
- November 23rd, 2021, 9:46 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: The Snake in the Monkey Cup – A Greenhorn Naturalist in Borneo
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3323
Re: The Snake in the Monkey Cup – A Greenhorn Naturalist in Borneo
Hi everyone, after sending out 105 queries, receiving 65 rejections, and hearing nothing from most of the rest (not counting "we would love to take you on, but, you know, Covid") for six months, the book ws finally picked up by an enthusiastic publisher: "We love it! I read most of th...
- October 31st, 2021, 11:38 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Moving back to Taiwan, plus a great Christmas book gift for your herping friends (and yourself)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2409
Re: Moving back to Taiwan, plus a great Christmas book gift for your herping friends (and yourself)
Hi all, 'tis that time of year again - the time to reflect on the year, to rejoice and celebrate with loved ones, and, of course, to put out yet another shameless plug for my book in the hope someone will know someone who would really love to read it and give it to him/her/them for Christmas: A Cobr...
- April 27th, 2021, 3:47 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: The Snake in the Monkey Cup – A Greenhorn Naturalist in Borneo
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3323
The Snake in the Monkey Cup – A Greenhorn Naturalist in Borneo
Howdy all, I'm finally done with my Borneo memories and am looking for a publisher. The Snake in the Monkey Cup – A Greenhorn Naturalist in Borneo documents our family's eight years of encounters with nature in the rainforests of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. As some of you might remember, I have lived...
- December 8th, 2020, 8:25 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Etymology of snake genera
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4857
- December 7th, 2020, 11:36 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Etymology of snake genera
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4857
- December 7th, 2020, 8:58 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Etymology of snake genera
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4857
Re: Etymology of snake genera
Thank you very much!!!
herpfriend wrote: ↑December 7th, 2020, 8:51 pm This may help:
http://www.ebeltz.net/herps/etymain.html#Snakes
- December 7th, 2020, 8:42 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Etymology of snake genera
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4857
Re: Etymology of snake genera
Wow, JEFF! That is beyond awesome. I imagine you're fluent in both Latin and Greek? My Latin is rather unfluent, although over the years and due to my interest in biology, my vocabulary has increased from my high school days when my most hated subject was Latin. And boy, was I bad at it. My father h...
- December 7th, 2020, 4:30 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Etymology of snake genera
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4857
Re: Etymology of snake genera
Thank you very much!
- December 7th, 2020, 4:13 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Etymology of snake genera
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4857
Re: Etymology of snake genera
Hi Bill, no, I want to know what the names mean, e.g.: Pseudagkistrodon:from Greek "pseudes", "false", and "Agkistrodon", a genus of American pit vipers. The name Agkistrodon comes from the Greek words ankistron ('fishhook') and odon 'tooth' and is likely a reference to...
- December 7th, 2020, 12:00 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Eastern Ghats Herping Trip Report ! (Images Up)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 19481
Re: Eastern Ghats Herping Trip Report ! (Images Up)
Hot damn! This is exactly what the forum needed! Thank you very much for taking the time, and for having the balls to travel 250 km on that moped! Iron Ass of the Year, haha! I loved that little black-and-red bandit lizard. And the scenery shots. And everything else!
Cheers from Taiwan!
Hans
Cheers from Taiwan!
Hans
- December 6th, 2020, 11:51 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Etymology of snake genera
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4857
Etymology of snake genera
Hello all,
I need help with the etymology of a few snake genera. Would anybody know of a website where I can research this? Or can answer directly?
In particular:
Hypsiscopus
Gonyosoma
Fowlea
Thanks a lot!
Hans
I need help with the etymology of a few snake genera. Would anybody know of a website where I can research this? Or can answer directly?
In particular:
Hypsiscopus
Gonyosoma
Fowlea
Thanks a lot!
Hans
- November 13th, 2020, 3:33 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8862
Re: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
Thank you, Kris - JUST DO IT - the herping world needs more reports! Thanks for the teaser, Hans, looking forward to the book. As I guess pretty much everyone else around here I've always been a fan of your writing but this is good even by your standards. Inspires me to get started on my own reports...
- November 13th, 2020, 2:29 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8862
Re: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
Thank you very much, Kelly, that's the nicest thing anybody has said to me in a while...I'll strive to live up to it!
- November 10th, 2020, 11:02 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8862
- November 9th, 2020, 10:59 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8862
Re: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
Hi guys, I'm very sorry to reply this late - all FHF notification mails have been ending up in my Spam folder since October, and only now I've discovered them there! Thank you for your compliments and your explanations regarding the fate of this forum. It's very sad, to say the least - this was alwa...
- November 9th, 2020, 10:39 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Amazing finds in this summer
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2998
Re: Amazing finds in this summer
Hi Jerry, I'm back in Taiwan. Fantastic shots, Jerry!! After all these years, I have yet to see a Daboia and a Rein Snake, let alone one of those damn 100-pacers that have kept eluding me for a solid 13 years now (while everyone else seems to trip over them every time they hit the mountains). @Jimi,...
- October 8th, 2020, 10:47 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Amazing finds in this summer
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2998
Re: Amazing finds in this summer
Fantastic shots, Jerry!! After all these years, I have yet to see a Daboia and a Rein Snake, let alone one of those damn 100-pacers that have kept eluding me for a solid 13 years now (while everyone else seems to trip over them every time they hit the mountains). @Jimi, you must come here. Everythin...
- October 8th, 2020, 10:39 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8862
Re: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
Thank you both for your replies, guys! "Lunatic fringe"...what's that about?
- October 5th, 2020, 9:05 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8862
Re: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
Thank you! By the way, what happened to all the traffic here on FHF? Looks pretty deserted these days. Does the pandemic keep people from herping, or have they moved to a hipper place I haven't heard about yet?
- October 5th, 2020, 3:59 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8862
Re: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
Thank you, Bill! Will do!
- October 4th, 2020, 10:26 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8862
Re: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
Thank you, Bill. Here you go. No pix , though - the ones available online outpretty the ones I took back then :) ========================================================================================== In December 2013, the cover photo of the august Herpetological Review shook the world of reptile...
- October 4th, 2020, 7:56 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8862
Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
Hey everyone, I haven't been very active here the past few years, due to our relocation to Taiwan and the lesser amount of time I could dedicate to herping in either Borneo or Taiwan, and due to a thousand other factors, some tragic, some boring. The good news , though, is that I've finished 80% of ...
- November 12th, 2019, 12:45 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Moving back to Taiwan, plus a great Christmas book gift for your herping friends (and yourself)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2409
Moving back to Taiwan, plus a great Christmas book gift for your herping friends (and yourself)
The holiday season is yet again upon us. What better gift for your herping friends (or yourself) than this wonderfully enlightening, hilarious, and strange book? A Cobra Hijacked My Camera Bag! Snakes and Stories from Taiwan Thanks, again, for letting me plug my stuff here with shameless abandon :-)...
- November 11th, 2019, 8:32 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: The day the music died.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6073
Re: The day the music died.
Wow, that's almost been a decade now?
- September 30th, 2019, 1:53 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Tips for Costa Rica, please!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 19791
Re: Tips for Costa Rica, please!
Thank you, Frank! Hi Hans I have been to CR last year. Not especialy for snakes but birds and reptiles. Monteverde is beautifull i recommend that. Arenal observatory lodge is also beautifull. They have a frog pond. You can go there by night and find lots of frogs and snakes. The saripiqui area has l...
- September 4th, 2019, 2:11 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Tips for Costa Rica, please!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 19791
Re: Tips for Costa Rica, please!
Thank you very much! I will second La Tarde ecolodge. Fantastic place. Gary Kritzinger is also great, but he is now in South Africa. Miguel Jimenez in LaFortuna is also a wonderful guide. And Cesar Barrio Amoros who runs DOC FROG Adventures. Lastly, if you into amphibeans, Brian Kubicki at CRARC is ...
- June 30th, 2019, 10:56 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Tips for Costa Rica, please!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 19791
Re: Tips for Costa Rica, please!
Hi all,
thank you very much for taking the time to post all your wonderful tips! I'll spend a few days now researching all this and will come back with a tentative agenda for you to check
Thanks again!!
Hans
thank you very much for taking the time to post all your wonderful tips! I'll spend a few days now researching all this and will come back with a tentative agenda for you to check
Thanks again!!
Hans
- June 19th, 2019, 3:37 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Tips for Costa Rica, please!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 19791
Tips for Costa Rica, please!
Hi all, we're planning to do our annual wildlife watching trip next year between January and June, and we picked Costa Rica. We have ten days in-country, we want to go see everything from bugs to reptiles (avian included) and from lowland to cloud forests, and we have no bloody idea where to start (...
- February 20th, 2019, 9:14 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Nepal Lizard ID, please!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7474
- February 20th, 2019, 12:19 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Nepal Lizard ID, please!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7474
Re: Nepal Lizard ID, please!
Hi guys, thank you very much!! As for my experiences in Nepal, check my Facebook wall for starters. There's a bird album, a general album, a Dulit album, and others. After our wildlife trip to Chitwan NP, I spent an extra three weeks alone in Kathmandu, waiting for a new passport. And I got adopted ...
- February 18th, 2019, 4:41 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Nepal Lizard ID, please!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7474
Nepal Lizard ID, please!
Hi all,
would anyone be able to identify this ca. 15-20 cm long lizard we found basking on a wall close to the Gurkha Museum in Pokhara, Nepal?
Hans Thanks very much in advance!
Cheers,
Hans
would anyone be able to identify this ca. 15-20 cm long lizard we found basking on a wall close to the Gurkha Museum in Pokhara, Nepal?
Hans Thanks very much in advance!
Cheers,
Hans
- January 4th, 2019, 4:56 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: The Mysterious Dinner Snake (Genus?)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 18228
- December 18th, 2018, 4:50 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Reticulated Siren - New Salamander Found in Southern US
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5797
- November 25th, 2018, 8:21 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Great Christmas gift for your herping friends (and yourself)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13171
Re: Great Christmas gift for your herping friends (and yours
Thank you very much for your patronage!! Northern Taiwan, where I am now, is a tad cold now, only bamboo vipers (Viridovipera steijnegeri) are still out and about. But I saw my first Grey-capped (Pygmy) Woodpecker yesterday in the Central Mountains, so not all is lost
Thanks again!
Cheers
Hans
Thanks again!
Cheers
Hans
- November 15th, 2018, 7:21 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Great Christmas gift for your herping friends (and yourself)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13171
Re: Great Christmas gift for your herping friends (and yours
I re-read your book all the time, Hans. Cannot wait for the new one. Thank you too, Zach! I'm making good progress, actually. We're back in Northern Taiwan for two months, since Malaysia observes school holidays now, and the place where I live, as magically beautiful as it is , in winter it's the w...
- November 11th, 2018, 11:20 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Great Christmas gift for your herping friends (and yourself)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13171
Re: Great Christmas gift for your herping friends (and yours
Thank you!Fieldherper wrote:Great Book and highly recommended. ! I too am awaiting the second book.
FH
- November 9th, 2018, 10:10 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Great Christmas gift for your herping friends (and yourself)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13171
Re: Great Christmas gift for your herping friends (and yours
I said it before, and imma say it again: The holiday season is upon us. What better gift for your herping friends (or yourself) than this wonderful book? A Cobra Hijacked My Camera Bag! Snakes and Stories from Taiwan Thanks for your continuous support :-) Cheers from Taiwan Hans PS: For those who've...
- September 27th, 2018, 5:49 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Singapore customs vs. snake hook
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12661
Re: Singapore customs vs. snake hook
Tell us!Martti Niskanen wrote:The immigration-process at the land-border is interesting to say the least.
- September 26th, 2018, 11:24 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Taiwan 2017 roundup
- Replies: 8
- Views: 17094
Re: Taiwan 2017 roundup
What a haul! Love the ferret-badger ... great shots! How did he allow you to get this close, and why did he hold still this long?
- September 11th, 2018, 9:10 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Back to Borneo, part 5 of 5: Danum Valley
- Replies: 14
- Views: 17523
Re: Back to Borneo, part 5 of 5: Danum Valley
I HEARD THAT!Ribbit wrote:You didn't. I did. (Shhh, don't tell Hans.)
- August 31st, 2018, 9:35 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Singapore customs vs. snake hook
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12661
Re: Singapore customs vs. snake hook
Lots of Singaporean herpers visit Borneo, where I live, and bring their own snake hooks. I don't think there should be an issue. Parangs, however, they will confiscate, even from check-in luggage.
- August 31st, 2018, 9:29 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Back to Borneo, part 5 of 5: Danum Valley
- Replies: 14
- Views: 17523
Re: Back to Borneo, part 5 of 5: Danum Valley
Wonderful stuff! That Aphaniotis ornata is amazing ... reminds me of the leaf-nose lizards in Sri Lanka. Didn't know these existed in Borneo!
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing!
- April 11th, 2018, 6:21 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Photos from my New Guinea trip
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6076
Photos from my New Guinea trip
Hi all, I just came back from a ten-day field trip to West Papua, the Indonesian side of New Guinea. It was technically a birding trip, as we (my uncle and I) stayed in a birding lodge and did the whole up-at-oh-four-hundred-and-straight-into-the-mud-without-tea thing every day. But this was also ou...
- April 11th, 2018, 5:34 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo report Part 1
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10783
Re: Borneo report Part 1
Very nice post! Envy you the Xenodermus ! As far as I know, Camponotus gigas was recently given the new and IMHO much cooler name Dinomyrmex gigas . Yes, that's "Terror Ant" :-) That horned frog...are you sure it was nasuta ? There are so many different hornies these days... Excellent tars...
- March 1st, 2018, 2:28 am
- Forum: Bird Forum
- Topic: Cheap and awesome birding camera
- Replies: 3
- Views: 20759
Re: Cheap and awesome birding camera
Ha! No way!!!