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by rpecora
November 10th, 2019, 12:11 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: "Lonely" American terrapin in Europe, but which one? ID?
Replies: 2
Views: 5200

Re: "Lonely" American terrapin in Europe, but which one? ID?

Looks like T. s. s. to me
by rpecora
April 4th, 2019, 10:40 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: [Video] - Send Diego 2k19 - Spring Break Herping
Replies: 2
Views: 4228

Re: [Video] - Send Diego 2k19 - Spring Break Herping

Nice vid, I enjoyed it. That is a full on adult boa, nice one too. Good job!
by rpecora
January 4th, 2019, 2:25 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Best of 2018 - Xenophidion schaeferi
Replies: 10
Views: 8691

Re: Best of 2018 - Xenophidion schaeferi

Interesting read. A lot of conclusions made based on one sided lineage. It would appear based on that study that quite possibly X. acanthognathus may be deemed invalid and/or the white/yellowish nape be more prevalent in X. shaeferi. In any case, to have found something that has rarely been observed...
by rpecora
January 4th, 2019, 9:46 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Best of 2018 - Xenophidion schaeferi
Replies: 10
Views: 8691

Re: Best of 2018 - Xenophidion schaeferi

I’ll check it out.
by rpecora
January 3rd, 2019, 12:16 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Best of 2018 - Xenophidion schaeferi
Replies: 10
Views: 8691

Re: Best of 2018 - Xenophidion schaeferi

Great post!

Question, what differentiates your Xenophidion schaeferi from Xenophidion acanthognathus?
by rpecora
November 30th, 2018, 10:52 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Rubber Boas in Monterey County
Replies: 12
Views: 10804

Re: Rubber Boas in Monterey County

E-mail sent.
by rpecora
October 24th, 2018, 4:05 pm
Forum: Mammal Forum
Topic: Desert lions
Replies: 3
Views: 26620

Re: Desert lions

I saw one at the enterance to Whitewater years ago. I pulled in and a group were spotlighting it going up the hill. Pretty cool to see. When I say years ago it was about twenty or more.
by rpecora
October 23rd, 2018, 11:01 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: ID help - New Jersey
Replies: 6
Views: 11088

Re: ID help - New Jersey

Hatchling to yearling Black Ratsnake. No question.

Image
by rpecora
October 10th, 2018, 10:05 am
Forum: News
Topic: Man dies from seasnake bite
Replies: 2
Views: 14560

Re: Man dies from seasnake bite

Fire Drake wrote:And then there was this...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-38592390
Perspective. Well done!
by rpecora
May 26th, 2018, 1:33 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: The Mystery of the granted green Pseudacris
Replies: 8
Views: 8462

Re: The Mystery of the granted green Pseudacris

Because they do morph, the pseudacris, doesn’t a morph make.
by rpecora
July 12th, 2017, 2:04 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Fluorescent CA Kingsnake
Replies: 66
Views: 44572

Re: Fluorescent CA Kingsnake

Kelly Mc wrote:I wonder if Porter has a different ability to see colors - if a person can be color blind maybe the opposite is true.

When did you find out you were color blind?
When I was in the first or second grade. About four in a hundred people are colorblind, mostly males.
by rpecora
July 12th, 2017, 6:42 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Fluorescent CA Kingsnake
Replies: 66
Views: 44572

Re: Fluorescent CA Kingsnake

Haven't noticed in any animals I've kept in the past where the opacity isn't evenly distributed pre-shed dulling the overall appearance of the snake. Certainly none of it in the eyes, and no pre-shed wrinkles noted. Still you could be right. I have noticed it early on in the process, that the opaci...
by rpecora
July 11th, 2017, 6:27 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Fluorescent CA Kingsnake
Replies: 66
Views: 44572

Re: Fluorescent CA Kingsnake

Haven't noticed in any animals I've kept in the past where the opacity isn't evenly distributed pre-shed dulling the overall appearance of the snake. Certainly none of it in the eyes, and no pre-shed wrinkles noted. Still you could be right.
by rpecora
July 11th, 2017, 3:32 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Fluorescent CA Kingsnake
Replies: 66
Views: 44572

Re: Fluorescent CA Kingsnake

Porter beautiful Kingsnake. I see what you mean, the color does stand out brightly in contrast to it's base color, no question. As far as the color it looks somewhat green. That being said I'm colorblind so no doubt it's yellow, and very striking, it' pops. Kelly, I see the iridescence like appearan...
by rpecora
May 25th, 2017, 4:50 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: whitewater
Replies: 75
Views: 67548

Re: whitewater

Walking a shoreline checking fishing licenses involves checking people who are fishing or in possession of fishing gear. LE are not leaving fishing rods on the beech hoping someone picks one up and starts casting. Great analogy. Like I stated "While I don't necessarily disagree with you...&quo...
by rpecora
May 24th, 2017, 5:57 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: whitewater
Replies: 75
Views: 67548

Re: whitewater

Very edge of the their range I suspect, but certainly makes sense. Plenty of water in good years, not to mention the ponds on the other side of the crossing with fish. Interesting on the e-mail, never been approached in that manner. Been approached on the road with an obvious upper desert boa before...
by rpecora
May 24th, 2017, 3:46 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: whitewater
Replies: 75
Views: 67548

Re: whitewater

They are. Don't recall ever seeing one there.

I recall the enyo thread.

A friend found a pine snake there also.
by rpecora
May 24th, 2017, 3:29 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: whitewater
Replies: 75
Views: 67548

Re: whitewater

While I don't necessarily disagree with you (semantics I guess), FG is checking for licenses, no different than walking a shoreline checking fishing licenses, no baiting required...by them. It is more newsworthy to them to use this baiting scheme to promote that people are poaching wildlife rather t...
by rpecora
May 24th, 2017, 3:11 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: whitewater
Replies: 75
Views: 67548

Re: whitewater

Ha, well this turned into something that I haven't seen here in quite sometime. Reminds me of the old days of the forums.

As far as Species of Special Concern goes they have no legal status of protection so as long as you are otherwise legal, interact as you wish.
by rpecora
May 22nd, 2017, 11:37 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: whitewater
Replies: 75
Views: 67548

Re: whitewater

No.
by rpecora
May 19th, 2017, 1:57 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Southern California - Winter / Spring 2017
Replies: 10
Views: 5629

Re: Southern California - Winter / Spring 2017

I've always adored the night sky when in Borrego, nice shot. Thanks for sharing them all.
by rpecora
May 18th, 2017, 4:13 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Large aggregation of painted turtles
Replies: 3
Views: 3117

Re: Large aggregation of painted turtles

Used to be a great place for waterfowl hunting back in the day.
by rpecora
May 18th, 2017, 2:26 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: whitewater
Replies: 75
Views: 67548

Re: whitewater

It's a Red spotted toad. Whitewater red spotted toads: http://www.fototime.com/5BD2A3BC8323E44/standard.jpg http://www.fototime.com/24583BA83E7FD02/standard.jpg http://www.fototime.com/035C10E836235A0/standard.jpg Here is one from either Arizona or the Kingstons, I don't recall and could be another ...
by rpecora
May 16th, 2017, 11:43 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: whitewater
Replies: 75
Views: 67548

Re: whitewater

It's a Red Spotted Toad. Very common there.
by rpecora
April 24th, 2017, 12:09 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: A lizard with a blue spot
Replies: 2
Views: 2805

Re: A lizard with a blue spot

That looks like it's in the skin not on the skin. Most likely a scar. Looks more grey to me.
by rpecora
April 9th, 2017, 9:32 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: turtle ID, Albuquerque, NM
Replies: 1
Views: 2281

Re: turtle ID, Albuquerque, NM

My guess is Trachemys scripta scripta, otherwise known as the Yellow Bellied Slider. A real old one.
by rpecora
March 25th, 2017, 8:11 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Unusual behavior of amphibians
Replies: 9
Views: 5258

Re: Unusual behavior of amphibians

It's a male thing.
Interestingly, that looks like the same Salamandra infraimmaculata you posted on March 5th from your trip in Feb.
by rpecora
March 24th, 2017, 10:49 pm
Forum: Fish Forum
Topic: Aquatic animal ID
Replies: 20
Views: 58833

Re: Aquatic animal ID

The long flipper is why I settled on Sea Lion also.
by rpecora
March 23rd, 2017, 8:57 pm
Forum: Fish Forum
Topic: Aquatic animal ID
Replies: 20
Views: 58833

Re: Aquatic animal ID

Sea Lion most likely.
by rpecora
March 19th, 2017, 9:51 pm
Forum: Fish Forum
Topic: Aquatic animal ID
Replies: 20
Views: 58833

Re: Aquatic animal ID

No way that's a harbor seal. The thing that gets me about this creature is the separation from body to fin. It's a funny angle to be sure but there is something about it that doesn't make sense, otherwise I would go with Orca. If that is a dorsal fin that would be the only animal I can think. The ot...
by rpecora
February 27th, 2017, 2:44 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Help with ID from Thailand
Replies: 4
Views: 2848

Re: Help with ID from Thailand

Naja Bungarus wrote:Hi.

This is most likely a Oligodon sp., it's not the rice paddy snake :)
In all likelihood.

Out of curiosity where in Thailand was the picture taken?
by rpecora
February 26th, 2017, 10:56 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Help with ID from Thailand
Replies: 4
Views: 2848

Re: Help with ID from Thailand

Possibly a Rice Paddy Snake.
by rpecora
January 21st, 2017, 10:42 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Poaching in Arizona
Replies: 46
Views: 25786

Re: Poaching in Arizona

Kelly Mc wrote:Money is one epic anomaly that makes us different from everything else alive
That is true. Therein lies the rub.
by rpecora
January 21st, 2017, 9:04 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Poaching in Arizona
Replies: 46
Views: 25786

Re: Poaching in Arizona

All respects. Humans are aberrant in almost every way in their relationship to other organisms and natural systems on the planet. We have willfully divorced ourselves from being a part of nature to being a super-parasite. I don't disagree with that statement (parasite) we are to some degree I suppos...
by rpecora
January 20th, 2017, 9:35 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Poaching in Arizona
Replies: 46
Views: 25786

Re: Poaching in Arizona

Glad I wasn't drinking something when I read that. In life, all life, there is a balance in nature required for it to perpetuate. If we as humans wish to determine what actions are necessary to prevent it's extinction and it's allowable take we have to have the objective data to support the actions ...
by rpecora
January 14th, 2017, 9:48 am
Forum: News
Topic: Poaching in Arizona
Replies: 46
Views: 25786

Re: Poaching in Arizona

One camp wants to protect them, the other camp wants to use as many as they can for their own purposes, if we value some of our neurons more than others we wait for data while ignoring whats really true.
How do you determine what's true without data?
by rpecora
January 12th, 2017, 4:29 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Poaching in Arizona
Replies: 46
Views: 25786

Re: Poaching in Arizona

Thank you both. I have read some dialog as Ernie has pointed out and other reports over the years and there is it seems some contradictions to conclusions that have been made and the evidence to reach those conclusions. My interest in this is purely to get grasp what the documented data sets show. B...
by rpecora
January 11th, 2017, 1:22 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Poaching in Arizona
Replies: 46
Views: 25786

Re: Poaching in Arizona

Thanks Bryan. Ecology of fear was precisely the point. It seems logical that it would be a preservation of life mechanism. I'm sure we've all made a wrong turn at some point in our lives and instinctively knew we will never go there again. With animals the repeated "spook" effect by predat...
by rpecora
January 10th, 2017, 5:10 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Poaching in Arizona
Replies: 46
Views: 25786

Re: Poaching in Arizona

Naive, no. Complete understanding, no of course not. That's why I brought it up to learn and/or be convinced otherwise. It's the peoples responsibility to question government. I don't recall the premise being mentioned before or reading a study that specifically mentions it. Can you point me in the ...
by rpecora
January 10th, 2017, 3:52 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Poaching in Arizona
Replies: 46
Views: 25786

Re: Poaching in Arizona

Im wondering if what you are saying is that the actions of these are to blame for the snakes leaving an area and promoting the appearance that something else is to blame for their absence? That is the premise. If those doing the studies suggest that there is a population decline in a given study ar...
by rpecora
January 10th, 2017, 1:29 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Poaching in Arizona
Replies: 46
Views: 25786

Re: Poaching in Arizona

If scientists were coming to my den site repeatedly, clipping my scale, drawing blood, tagging me, painting my tail...I would find another site to drop my litter too.
by rpecora
January 9th, 2017, 11:06 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Poaching in Arizona
Replies: 46
Views: 25786

Re: Poaching in Arizona

I didnt mean to sound riled. But I have held alot of stuff back here in discussions, and I also have had my own interior reckonings. Im not overly enamored with our liberties as humans when it comes to animals. It is an unpopular and easily, rampantly critiqued view I have that I cant help after a ...
by rpecora
January 9th, 2017, 11:04 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Poaching in Arizona
Replies: 46
Views: 25786

Re: Poaching in Arizona

Fair enough. To prove your point I don't know that you didn't take that snake. I'll take your word that you didn't. You can assume it's happening, but to denigrate people with this rhetoric and/or implement regulation without evidence to properly define the problem you will have no idea if that reg...
by rpecora
January 9th, 2017, 10:35 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Poaching in Arizona
Replies: 46
Views: 25786

Re: Poaching in Arizona

Ive been privy to alot of things you havent. If you think Im going to get messy on Scotts site you're wrong. And yeah its free money when you steal something to sell. I have grown into the opinion that most of the time collecting animals in the wild is a form of stealing. Its also my business who I...
by rpecora
January 9th, 2017, 9:19 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Poaching in Arizona
Replies: 46
Views: 25786

Re: Poaching in Arizona

Kelly Mc wrote:There are and has been alot of dirtbags involved with reptiles and they see reptiles in the wild as Free Money.
We both know it's not free money. Quantify a lot of dirt bags involved with reptiles?
by rpecora
January 9th, 2017, 7:45 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Poaching in Arizona
Replies: 46
Views: 25786

Re: Poaching in Arizona

Meaning what exactly?
by rpecora
January 9th, 2017, 7:33 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Poaching in Arizona
Replies: 46
Views: 25786

Re: Poaching in Arizona

There are no other vertebrate animals easier to capture, more convenient to conceal in silent compact storage for a significant time frame without care support. None. To not recognize how exploitable those factors are shows either denial or lack of insight. No one is questioning the ease of which t...
by rpecora
January 9th, 2017, 7:04 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Poaching in Arizona
Replies: 46
Views: 25786

Re: Poaching in Arizona

Fair enough. To prove your point I don't know that you didn't take that snake. I'll take your word that you didn't. You can assume it's happening, but to denigrate people with this rhetoric and/or implement regulation without evidence to properly define the problem you will have no idea if that regu...