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- June 20th, 2018, 9:28 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Road cruising Roanoke for Timbers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7034
- May 6th, 2018, 3:31 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: So many teeth in the river
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8339
Re: So many teeth in the river
That was pretty cool!!
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing!
- March 11th, 2018, 3:17 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: '17season:Utah, California, Arizona, Virginia, and CostaRica
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8890
Re: '17season:Utah, California, Arizona, Virginia, and Costa
Fantastic!!!
Love those Utah Mt Kings!!!
Nice job!!
Love those Utah Mt Kings!!!
Nice job!!
- January 31st, 2018, 6:26 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: 100 Species, A 2017 in Review Post
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18213
Re: 100 Species, A 2017 in Review Post
Great Job on the 100!!!
You guys need to hit NW Australia before the Cane Toads decimate the entire nation's herp populations.
Just wait till you have your own driver's license
You guys need to hit NW Australia before the Cane Toads decimate the entire nation's herp populations.
Just wait till you have your own driver's license
- August 24th, 2016, 7:28 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Far North Queensland Introduction
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3479
Re: Far North Queensland Introduction
Pretty cool finding an adult and a juvenile green tree python!
- August 13th, 2016, 12:50 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
- Replies: 90
- Views: 106973
Re: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
Brian, Because you have 50 years of field experience, you should have no trouble understanding the basics of Epigenetics. Click the link and within a half an hour, you will begin to see why these DNA jockeys can't tell the difference between a pulchra and a multicincta. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- August 13th, 2016, 8:42 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
- Replies: 90
- Views: 106973
Re: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
Let me restate this in the most simple way possible. Current DNA analysis using human derived algorithms cannot distinguish between most currently described sub species. In other words, if you analyzed 6 different sub species of Lampropeltis zonata with today's DNA testing, all six of the different ...
- August 12th, 2016, 5:10 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
- Replies: 90
- Views: 106973
Re: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
Yes, I take back everything crass and sexist I said about Sara. My rude sense of humor often gets the best of me. But I still maintain that what those people from LA (the state not the city) did to Triangulum is a crime against humanity and taxonomy. A 30 minute analysis of Epigenetics by anyone wit...
- August 12th, 2016, 3:39 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
- Replies: 90
- Views: 106973
Re: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
David, In fact, the more research I have done, the more convinced I have become that using DNA exclusively to do taxonomy is is close to being scientific fraud. Ask one of these DNA jockeys why they never assign anything into sub specific groups and you will just get an empty stupid stare. The reali...
- July 29th, 2016, 4:16 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Gila Monsters threatened by climate change?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 15603
Re: Gila Monsters threatened by climate change?
That is funny!! The idea that Burmese pythons are going to make it even 100 miles further north into Florida is borderline preposterous. My friends who live down there said that the very cold winter we had a few years back wiped out close to half the Burms. We are gonna need an awful lot of global w...
- July 29th, 2016, 2:30 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Gila Monsters threatened by climate change?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 15603
Re: Gila Monsters threatened by climate change?
Van, The Reticulated gila in South Eastern AZ definitely gets the benefits of the Summer Monsoons, but the Banded gilas in the western and northern areas get almost no summer rains and the rainfall totals for the year in these areas are bleak and very "desert" like. The weeks of peak activ...
- July 28th, 2016, 7:45 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Gila Monsters threatened by climate change?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 15603
Re: Gila Monsters threatened by climate change?
Because of the evolutionary adaptations that gilas have made toward living in hot, dry desert conditions, I would say they are uniquely qualified to survive global warming and drought. If we start reading about quail populations declining or quail being put on the endangered species list, then we ca...
- July 25th, 2016, 5:17 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Similarities between Hunting Pokemon and Snakes. Fascinating
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4335
Re: Similarities between Hunting Pokemon and Snakes. Fascina
Hunting Pokemon is basically Virtual Reality herping with a few extra VR twists like pokebattles.
- July 24th, 2016, 6:55 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Similarities between Hunting Pokemon and Snakes. Fascinating
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4335
Re: Similarities between Hunting Pokemon and Snakes. Fascina
cbernz,
My point exactly!
My point exactly!
- July 24th, 2016, 6:49 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Gila Monsters threatened by climate change?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 15603
Re: Gila Monsters threatened by climate change?
The reason gilas appear to be "scarce" is because they spend the vast, vast majority of their time underground. If you know when and how to see them in the wild, they suddenly begin to appear plentiful. I have been pulled over by AZ game and fish three times and each time I asked the warde...
- July 20th, 2016, 7:28 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: The World's Smallest Crotalus
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4246
Re: The World's Smallest Crotalus
That is cool!
How big is that Mexican coin in the pic compared to a US quarter?
How big is that Mexican coin in the pic compared to a US quarter?
- July 19th, 2016, 5:47 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Similarities between Hunting Pokemon and Snakes. Fascinating
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4335
Similarities between Hunting Pokemon and Snakes. Fascinating
I have been hunting Pokemon with my 5 and 8 year old for the last week and it is fascinating how similar Hunting Pokemons is to hunting snakes. You walk or drive around totally focused on the environment, real or virtual and then all of a sudden, your target presents itself. Positive brain chemicals...
- July 18th, 2016, 7:15 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
- Replies: 90
- Views: 106973
Re: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
Jeff, Now you are telling me that if you are really really skilled, or better yet "intimate" with the snakes, like Sara is with her milksnakes, then and only then will you be able to properly ID snakes in the wild without sending their DNA off for questionable analysis thru human written a...
- July 17th, 2016, 8:17 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
- Replies: 90
- Views: 106973
Re: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
Jeff, does it bother you in the least that No scientist on earth can now accurately identify an animal in the field if we rename everything based on DNA analysis?
- July 17th, 2016, 7:05 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
- Replies: 90
- Views: 106973
Re: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
Jeff, That is a cute test and I am sure that we could find hundreds of photos of "triangulum"-like snakes that are hybrids of two different sub species or strange color morphs. All the more reason why counting scales, morphology and locations on a range map really are important to field id...
- July 17th, 2016, 5:08 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
- Replies: 90
- Views: 106973
Re: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
Jeff, I did not see your post when I submitted my post up above. You seem like a reasonable guy,,,,,,Does it bother you in the least that No scientist on earth can now accurately identify an animal in the field if we rename everything based on DNA analysis? Doesn't this completely defeat the entire ...
- July 17th, 2016, 4:53 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
- Replies: 90
- Views: 106973
Re: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
Anton, Thanks for the link. Very interesting. The whole thing is based on DNA Forget morphology. Who needs range maps. Who cares which groups can still or did recently breed together. Let's just create an abstract set of "rules", analyze the DNA and apply our "rules" however we s...
- July 17th, 2016, 12:54 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
- Replies: 90
- Views: 106973
Re: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
Seriously Kelly, Every time you post, you offer nothing but name calling and insults. I am desperately looking for someone, anyone, to defend or explain what Sara did from a scientific perspective and absolutely none of you have been able to even attempt to defend what she did. You may find out the ...
- July 17th, 2016, 12:27 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
- Replies: 90
- Views: 106973
Re: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
Anton,
That was a whole lot of blather.
Simply defend what she did from a scientific perspective or stay out of the argument.
That was a whole lot of blather.
Simply defend what she did from a scientific perspective or stay out of the argument.
- July 17th, 2016, 11:35 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
- Replies: 90
- Views: 106973
Re: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
Rather than wasting your time insulting me, why don't you guys defend what Sara did.
Explain in scientific terms why changing names that have been published thousands of
times in thousands of publications for over a century was a good idea.
Explain in scientific terms why changing names that have been published thousands of
times in thousands of publications for over a century was a good idea.
- July 17th, 2016, 9:40 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
- Replies: 90
- Views: 106973
Re: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
Anton, In fact, the situation is the exact opposite of what you describe. I strongly submit that Sara's professor let her get away with all sorts of taxonomic crap that he would have NEVER let his male students get away with. She wantonly lumped and split a bunch of names that have been around for 1...
- July 16th, 2016, 7:33 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
- Replies: 90
- Views: 106973
Re: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
Gene, It is unfortunate that you were born with underdeveloped "genes" in the sense of humor portion of your brain. Sara can invite me to her "Snake Pit" and lump and split with me any time her heart desires. I have all sorts of kinky names we could throw at the Lichanura group, ...
- July 13th, 2016, 5:07 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
- Replies: 90
- Views: 106973
Re: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
Jeez! If I had known that Sara was a Hottie, I would never have attacked her ridiculous taxonomy https://sararuane.wordpress.com/about-sara-contact/ On a scale of 1 - 10 in the Herp world, Sarah has to be a 12. Maybe she can rename and lump and split the Lichanura group next!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO SARA!!...
- July 13th, 2016, 5:00 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
- Replies: 90
- Views: 106973
Re: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
OK, I had this coming as I broke my own rule about arguing religion and taxonomy on the internet. If you guys think that Sara was correct to sink a 150 year old species like triangulum and turn a bunch of "races" - subspecies into whole species, be my guest. Sarah is a genius. Why didn't a...
- July 12th, 2016, 7:01 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
- Replies: 90
- Views: 106973
Re: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
Gene, As you get older and read more about reptiles, you will learn the unfortunate fact that taxonomy and genetics are not related nearly as much as they should be. "Scientists" come along every day and decide to rename animals for reasons that are often self serving and have very little ...
- July 12th, 2016, 1:43 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Question to Richard Hoyer regarding Rubber and Rosy boas
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4988
Re: Question to Richard Hoyer regarding Rubber and Rosy boas
With regards to the dwarfism in the Southern Rubber Boas, the scientific term is "Insular Dwarfism" Wiki has a good explanation: Possible causes of insular dwarfism There are several proposed explanations for the mechanism which produces such dwarfism.[3][4] One is a selective process wher...
- July 12th, 2016, 10:15 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Question to Richard Hoyer regarding Rubber and Rosy boas
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4988
Re: Question to Richard Hoyer regarding Rubber and Rosy boas
I sent you a private message
- July 12th, 2016, 10:14 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Question to Richard Hoyer regarding Rubber and Rosy boas
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4988
Re: Question to Richard Hoyer regarding Rubber and Rosy boas
Richard, It would be a blast to take you out on a herping trip, anytime you are down in the LA area :) I don't get up to Oregon very often :) What I was saying regarding dwarfism in Southern Rubber Boas was just my speculation,,,,allow me to elaborate: It is my opinion that Rubber boas were the domi...
- July 8th, 2016, 7:29 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
- Replies: 90
- Views: 106973
Re: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
Jeroen, I have been reading (English language) reptile books for the last 40 years and I have been largely unimpressed with the English language herp books written by Europeans. They typically end up looking like a TFH book available at your local pet store, designed for beginner snake keepers. Mayb...
- July 7th, 2016, 7:37 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: NEW BOOK: Snakes of Mexico
- Replies: 90
- Views: 106973
- July 7th, 2016, 6:05 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: My Latest Rattlesnake Music VIDEO ...,
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7817
Re: My Latest Rattlesnake Music VIDEO ...,
It was the best I could do using an iPhone
- July 5th, 2016, 11:32 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: My Latest Rattlesnake Music VIDEO ...,
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7817
- July 5th, 2016, 11:03 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Question to Richard Hoyer regarding Rubber and Rosy boas
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4988
Question to Richard Hoyer regarding Rubber and Rosy boas
As a student of Rosy boas for the last 40 years, I find Richard's information re rubber boas absolutely fascinating and enlightening. Richard, I am curious as to whether you have any insights or opinions regarding the distributional relationships between Rosy boas and rubber boas? My loose understan...
- September 4th, 2012, 4:21 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: China post #41, conference, Shennongjia, and Beijing
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5834
Re: China post #41, conference, Shennongjia, and Beijing
Great stuff!
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing.
- September 1st, 2012, 7:26 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Aussie Monitors
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3649
Re: Aussie Monitors
Awesome post!
What part of Aus did you see the perenties at?
I saw one for about 20 seconds, south of Alice and I have wanted to go back to see them some more ever since.
Great pics!
What part of Aus did you see the perenties at?
I saw one for about 20 seconds, south of Alice and I have wanted to go back to see them some more ever since.
Great pics!
- August 31st, 2012, 4:06 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Around the world in 120 Days Part 4: Australian Snakes
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5804
Re: Around the world in 120 Days Part 4: Australian Snakes
Great Pics.
What area did you see the Aspidites in?
Very cool!
What area did you see the Aspidites in?
Very cool!
- July 21st, 2012, 9:25 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bullfox (Bullsnake x Fox Snake hybrids)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7399
Re: Bullfox (Bullsnake x Fox Snake hybrids)
Maybe Burbrink was correct when he lumped Pithuophis and Pantherophis together.
The fact that they successfully bred together is certainly evidence towards that direction.
The fact that they successfully bred together is certainly evidence towards that direction.
- July 20th, 2012, 7:15 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: A last minute trip to Southern California
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2365
Re: A last minute trip to Southern California
That's great you found a striper and two boas.
Very cool and congrats!
Very cool and congrats!
- July 20th, 2012, 3:54 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bullfox (Bullsnake x Fox Snake hybrids)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7399
Re: Bullfox (Bullsnake x Fox Snake hybrids)
We all assume that bull snakes and fox snakes are actually a different genus because some scientist described them that way. Maybe they aren't as different from each other as we think they are. I have a buddy who artificially inseminates different genus of colubrids with each other and he gets ferti...
- July 9th, 2012, 4:55 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Cape York Peninsula, Australia
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6715
Re: Cape York Peninsula, Australia
Congrats on the Chondros!
Very cool.
Can you get up there any time of year now?
When I tried to get up there, the road was 2 meters deep in water
Very cool.
Can you get up there any time of year now?
When I tried to get up there, the road was 2 meters deep in water
- July 5th, 2012, 7:55 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Mojave Desert: Part 6
- Replies: 15
- Views: 13412
Re: Mojave Desert: Part 6
I am no spiderologist, but I picture a thousand angry baby black widows exploding out of that egg in the palm of your hand.
- June 28th, 2012, 6:57 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: A Third Installment from the Sonoran
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6568
Re: A Third Installment from the Sonoran
Great stuff
Love the tracks!
Love the tracks!
- June 24th, 2012, 5:15 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: A few Namibian reptiles
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5035
Re: A few Namibian reptiles
I wanna see the vid of the rock python!
- June 18th, 2012, 5:24 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: August Herping Destinations (besides AZ)?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1791
Re: August Herping Destinations (besides AZ)?
Central and south Baja kicks butt in August and Sept.
Unfortunately, my wife won't let me go anymore
Unfortunately, my wife won't let me go anymore
- June 18th, 2012, 4:17 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Have you often dreamed of relocating to the Chiricahuas?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3300
Re: Have you often dreamed of relocating to the Chiricahuas?
I wonder what sort of plans Chad has for the property?
Eco tourism maybe?
Maybe a new stadium for an additional NFL team?
Eco tourism maybe?
Maybe a new stadium for an additional NFL team?