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- August 17th, 2014, 11:55 am
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: It's been too long since we've had an in situ theme thread..
- Replies: 212
- Views: 868549
Re: It's been too long since we've had an in situ theme thre
Nerodia rhombifera, near Tulsa, OK
- December 22nd, 2013, 6:17 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Help with two Borneo snake IDs please
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5052
Re: Help with two Borneo snake IDs please
The first one - pass.
Could the second one have been a juvenile Ptyas carinata? The transition from lighter crossbands to a reticulate pattern with black-edged light rectangles seems to fit quite nicely.
Could the second one have been a juvenile Ptyas carinata? The transition from lighter crossbands to a reticulate pattern with black-edged light rectangles seems to fit quite nicely.
- December 19th, 2013, 1:20 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: You thought the milksnake changes were bad?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8835
Re: You thought the milksnake changes were bad?
Congratulations to America on their epic victory in the SuperBowl and World Series against… errr… themselves!Brian Hubbs wrote:
- December 17th, 2013, 12:27 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Milksnake changes published
- Replies: 62
- Views: 51206
Re: Milksnake changes published
Lineage is fine in a historical context note, but we need to give names and descriptions that make sense to what we see today, and understand how these animals interact TODAY. Period. The lineage mumbo jumbo can be studied as a side note and help us understand where a future problem may lie genetic...
- December 16th, 2013, 3:52 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Milksnake changes published
- Replies: 62
- Views: 51206
Re: Milksnake changes published
Subsequent sampling will better define the boundaries and the picture will become even more clear. There is still a lot of work to be done collecting samples in SE Kansas, SW Missouri, N Arkansas, S Texas, and Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee. - Travis So why didn't they wait to pu...
Re: Pit Viper
Great photos!
- October 25th, 2013, 3:04 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Literature on rattlesnake roundups
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2599
Re: Literature on rattlesnake roundups
It's been said several times, but it really can't be overstressed: NEVER hesitate to email the author of a paper for a pdf. The email address is almost always available before you hit the paywall, and most researchers will be absolutely delighted that someone wants to read their paper, irrespective ...
- October 24th, 2013, 4:41 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Rattlesnake protective gear, thoughts and opinions?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 49405
Re: Rattlesnake protective gear, thoughts and opinions?
I have been taking a bunch of inexperienced UK students on a herp trip to AZ/NM for the last two years, and after a couple of close calls in the earlier years, they were made to wear Snake Guardz this year - I had no complaints about them being uncomfortable, and they certainly work well against cac...
- October 14th, 2013, 11:27 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: East Texas and West Texas, Terlingua Report
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3580
Re: East Texas and West Texas, Terlingua Report
In ALL my field text, it's still referred to as the Northern Black-tailed Rattlesnake, C molossus :| The paper highlighting the distinction only came out last year, so unless you only bought the guides since then, it's a bit much to expect clairvoyance of them ;) I did confirm via scale counts on t...
- October 14th, 2013, 5:37 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: East Texas and West Texas, Terlingua Report
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3580
Re: East Texas and West Texas, Terlingua Report
Nice photos. One ID correction: sorry to spoil a lifer, but the " Crotalus scutulatus " is a Crotalus atrox - note "salt and pepper" markings, small scales on snout, light line from behind eye meeting edge of mouth, ill-defined light edges of diamond markings. The commonly used c...
- August 23rd, 2013, 11:31 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: SoCal Closeout and Arizona
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6304
Re: SoCal Closeout and Arizona
Great photography! I love the "snakes at dusk" shots, esp the WDB and the Pituophis!
- August 22nd, 2013, 11:07 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Atrox or Scute?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1457
Re: Atrox or Scute?
atrox. hellihooks is right: the best characters (if you can zoom in close enough) are the head shields. Another good one is the light stripes behind/below the eye: in atrox, the upper light line behind the eye meets the line of the mouth, in scutes it passes well above the angle of the mouth (and th...
- August 20th, 2013, 1:40 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Successful Southeast AZ trip
- Replies: 57
- Views: 28276
Re: Successful Southeast AZ trip
Great photos, happy memories!
It's very depressing to hear that the willardi spots are being hit so hard...
One ID correction: both those juvenile rattlers from the Peloncilllos area are Mohaves, including the one labelled as a WDB.
It's very depressing to hear that the willardi spots are being hit so hard...
One ID correction: both those juvenile rattlers from the Peloncilllos area are Mohaves, including the one labelled as a WDB.
- August 5th, 2013, 5:11 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Final West Malaysia Adventure - July 2013
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10495
Re: Final West Malaysia Adventure - July 2013
Great post, brought back many happy memories! I am surprised you did not see more Calloselasma around Kuala Nerang! It used to be Calloselasma Central, and you would see 3-4 every night. I suppose the dry conditions would not have helped. What is the vegetation there now? Still rubber plantations, o...
- July 28th, 2013, 11:49 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Dispatches #71: Sumatran Pitviper (Parias sumatranus)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6160
Re: Borneo Dispatches #71: Sumatran Pitviper (Parias sumatra
Fantastic photos of an amazing snake!
- July 4th, 2013, 4:49 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Snakes Survival after Being Run Over
- Replies: 39
- Views: 33557
Re: Snakes Survival after Being Run Over
Am I a bad person for having found myself wishing that it was the cat that had been run over before reading on?simpleyork wrote:just found my lifer nightsnake . . . as We(Thom and I)got out of the car I saw a cat come out and was sniffing the snake . . . then a car ran over it . . . .
- June 26th, 2013, 6:26 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Epic Return to Taiwan
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4798
Re: Epic Return to Taiwan
Action shot of the week: Many-banded Krait ( Bungarus multicinctus ), "Where's Waldo" style. (Hey, I had neither flashlight nor snake hook, the camera kept jamming, and my wife was yelling from the back of the scooter "IF YOU FREEHANDLE IT, I'M GONNA DIVORCE YOU!!" So, Hans, do ...
- June 24th, 2013, 12:32 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Opinions please on this unusual hognose encounter
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3310
Re: Opinions please on this unusual hognose encounter
It's amazing what you can find out on the road at night.... in S. America, I have on two or three occasions found Ameiva ameiva , normally the ultimate heliotherm, running around on the road at night (dry nights, not particularly hot, no special weather conditions), and I once caught a juvenile comm...
- June 21st, 2013, 2:41 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Biology of the Pitvipers II Symposium, Tulsa, OK, 4-7 June 2
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1788
Biology of the Pitvipers II Symposium, Tulsa, OK, 4-7 June 2
The 2nd Biology of the Pitvipers Symposium will take place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on 4-7 June 2014. Topics will include: Ecology Behaviour Phylogenetics Phylogeography/Population genetics Reproductive biology/physiology Venom Conservation For further information, see the Symposium's web page at https:/...
- June 17th, 2013, 8:23 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Oman, June 2013
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9745
Re: Oman, June 2013
I absolutely second that (I was in UAE and Oman in 2006)! A visit to that part of the world is a real eye opener from the very negative image that most of us have formed over the last decades.moloch wrote:Thanks, EJ.
Oman and the UAE are perfectly safe and the people are so friendly.
- May 25th, 2013, 7:51 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: 2 Chinese snake IDs
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5792
Re: 2 Chinese snake IDs
No idea about the first one. The second one.... hmmmm.... if I had to put one name to it, I'd say a juvenile Pseudoxenodon macrops, but I sure wouldn't bet the mortgage on it...
- May 25th, 2013, 2:06 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: EDB-like WDBs?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7361
Re: EDB-like WDBs?
It doesn't look like a Western Diamondback to me at all. I'm surprised there was any kind of debate on it. Agreed - the only thing that prompted me to raise the topic is that in that FB discussion, a couple of links to very EDB-like WDBs were posted, which I have not managed to find again since the...
- May 23rd, 2013, 10:21 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: EDB-like WDBs?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7361
Re: EDB-like WDBs?
A friend of mine removed what I thought had to be a EDB from his property out about a hour and a half west of Houston. Said he saw a larger one just like it while he was doing yard work for someone near by him. He owns a lawn service so he sees all sorts of cool snakes. Hi, I son't suppose there is...
- May 22nd, 2013, 11:00 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Photos From the Field... my adventures... 70 photos!
- Replies: 34
- Views: 8075
Re: Photos From the Field... my adventures... 70 photos!
Great post! And it's a great post that I particularly like not because it shows off rare species from exotic locations, but because it takes common species and shows them in a new and artistic light, and thereby shows a tremendous appreciation and love of nature.
Looking forward to plenty more!
Looking forward to plenty more!
- May 21st, 2013, 3:51 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: German lizard ID, please
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1352
Re: German lizard ID, please
Gern geschehen!
- May 21st, 2013, 3:22 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: German lizard ID, please
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1352
Re: German lizard ID, please
Sand lizard - Lacerta agilis.
- May 19th, 2013, 4:12 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: EDB-like WDBs?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7361
Re: EDB-like WDBs?
To me, it looks like an EDB. EDBs can have a slight coontailish look similar to WDBs, but without the extreme contrast of white/black, which that animal doesn't seem to have, or else is not clearly visible (to me at least) even when blown up. Here's an example (not my photo): LOL! - I know because ...
- May 19th, 2013, 12:17 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: EDB-like WDBs?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7361
EDB-like WDBs?
I am sure most of you here will have seen the photo of a diamondback rattlesnake surrounded by guinea fowl that has been going viral all over the web: http://discussions.texasbowhunter.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=378284&d=1345308207 Taken from http://discussions.texasbowhunter.com/for...
- May 15th, 2013, 10:31 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: The Islands of Bimini
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11403
Re: The Islands of Bimini
Great post - I remember reading about those islands in one of Dick's books many moons ago. It's good to see that things are still there!
- May 9th, 2013, 10:46 am
- Forum: Reading Room
- Topic: Journal Reviewing Advice?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8544
Re: Journal Reviewing Advice?
Reviewing papers written by folks for whom English is a second language can be especially difficult, and sometimes things are just so unclear no matter how hard you try to read past the writing issues that the best you can do is say something like "This paper requires additional editing for En...
- May 8th, 2013, 4:53 pm
- Forum: Reading Room
- Topic: Journal Reviewing Advice?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8544
Re: Journal Reviewing Advice?
If you are reviewing a research paper, the fundamental question is whether the question is phrased appropriately and whether the data presented are adequate to answer the question. If the answer to those questions is basically positive, then your job consists of making constructive suggestions to im...
- May 4th, 2013, 8:47 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Anyone see the National Geographic article on Python venom?
- Replies: 88
- Views: 40743
Re: Anyone see the National Geographic article on Python ven
“Any other questions I can help you with?” Yes there is. I have been advised that you and your usual band of thieves are preparing a paper on Death Adders (Acanthophis) with a view to breaching the Zoological code and naming taxa formally described by myself more than ten years ago in an act delibe...
- May 3rd, 2013, 12:47 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Anyone see the National Geographic article on Python venom?
- Replies: 88
- Views: 40743
Re: Anyone see the National Geographic article on Python ven
Nothing beats that feeling of coffee spurting through one's nostrils...
Thanks for the laugh Ray
Thanks for the laugh Ray
- May 1st, 2013, 1:19 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Does this bite look real? "Bear Grylls's Producer"
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10978
Re: Does this bite look real? "Bear Grylls's Producer"
Totally disagree. What you see as pink should be red. It's my opinion and I hope I'm wrong. AFAIK neither of us is a medic, but I have certainly seen plenty of seriously gruesome photos like this one where the patient recovered with pretty much full use of the limb. I sure hope so for the guy - muc...
- May 1st, 2013, 1:04 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Does this bite look real? "Bear Grylls's Producer"
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10978
Re: Does this bite look real? "Bear Grylls's Producer"
If it is... I can't see any reason how that foot can be saved. That foot is totally salvageable. The tendons are the white bits you see and they look intact. There has been extensive loss of skin and subcutaneous tissue, but there are no significant muscles there anyway, and all the flesh that is v...
- May 1st, 2013, 10:41 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Does this bite look real? "Bear Grylls's Producer"
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10978
Re: Does this bite look real? "Bear Grylls's Producer"
Mystery solved - apparently it was a Bothrops asper in Costa Rica (although I am not sure how that works with the sockets....) - see https://twitter.com/steve_rankin
- May 1st, 2013, 2:29 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Does this bite look real? "Bear Grylls's Producer"
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10978
Re: Does this bite look real? "Bear Grylls's Producer"
It certainly looks plausible as a necrotic cobra bite after a through clean-up and debridement of necrotic tissue. It was not a fasciotomy. I checked Bear Grylls' Twitter feed and apparently they have been filming in Canada for a while,which would seem unlikely. It has been pointed out in the commen...
- May 1st, 2013, 12:03 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Anyone see the National Geographic article on Python venom?
- Replies: 88
- Views: 40743
Re: Anyone see the National Geographic article on Python ven
Wolfgang .... “So a few mistakes slipped into the Kaiser et al. paper - big deal, that was hardly the point of the paper.” Well that says something about the lack of peer review at the so-called journal you and your mates control! And to allege “a few mistakes” is also a bit rich. Try dozens! Put b...
- April 28th, 2013, 11:09 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: DON'T go jogging after getting bit by an Aussie Brown snake
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3069
Re: DON'T go jogging after getting bit by an Aussie Brown sn
Interesting - rapid collapse after a painless bite is usually associated with Pseudonaja, whereas mulga snakes Pseudechis australis are among the few Aussie elapids which do cause significant local envenoming. That said, they are also of a size where they could easily be confused with pythons....
- April 27th, 2013, 10:08 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Anyone see the National Geographic article on Python venom?
- Replies: 88
- Views: 40743
Re: Anyone see the National Geographic article on Python ven
So a few mistakes slipped into the Kaiser et al. paper - big deal, that was hardly the point of the paper. Instead, the Point of View promoted therein is that scientists should be able to ignore non-science such as yours, and that has received formal support from the American Society of Ichthyologis...
- April 3rd, 2013, 4:35 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Poisonous snakes...?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8590
Re: Poisonous snakes...?
huh, interesting. Yeah, I know, it's quite shocking. I wonder how venomous R. nuchalis really is. They never attempt to bite, but it would be crazy if they are just as venomous, if not more than their relatives Colubrids that "never bite" are the ones that should worry you most. Among Asi...
- March 27th, 2013, 12:11 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Poisonous snakes...?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8590
Re: Poisonous snakes...?
Awesome thread! Loved those photos of the secretions on the neck! The bit that is worth adding on (because it got lost in the media frenzy) is that Rhabdophis is both venomous and poisonous: it has a perfectly good venom (Duvernoy's) gland secreting toxins generated by the snake which it will inject...
- March 18th, 2013, 3:12 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Adder shots from today (2013-03-17)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3557
Re: Adder shots from today (2013-03-17)
Fail! It's not a proper Scandinavian adder post if it does not show adders on snow
- February 25th, 2013, 11:42 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Anyone know the origin of this picture?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5099
Re: Anyone know the origin of this picture?
The snake is a black mamba alright... Here is a link to the story according to the photographer with some additional notes and thoughts. http://strangebehaviors.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/black-mamba-bite-the-back-story/ There was a discussion of this on Harry Greene's Facebook wall where people who h...
- February 23rd, 2013, 5:27 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Photos from a quick trip to Oman
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8537
Re: Photos from a quick trip to Oman
Oman is a fantastic place to visit and herp. Good infrastructure (but with room for some adventure), friendly helpful people, and generally a safe, peaceful place. The perfect antidote to the negative stereotypes that pervade our view of that region. Your post brought back some great memories from a...
- February 20th, 2013, 4:33 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Meanwhile, across the pond, at 53 degres latitude N....
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4559
Re: Meanwhile, across the pond, at 53 degres latitude N....
... ha, id forgot about the other green island, hhmm mebbe w/ the pope calling it quits, we can right that historic wrong :p On a serious note tho, surely the british isles have drifted apart from each other and away from the mainland, what is the contemporary rationale for neither the grass snake ...
- February 19th, 2013, 10:09 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Meanwhile, across the pond, at 53 degres latitude N....
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4559
Re: Meanwhile, across the pond, at 53 degres latitude N....
... agreed; the european adders simply rock. Those look like possibly 2 gravid females? They must overwinter their progeny? Assuming the high productivity of your emerald isle; i would expect them to be viperine-plump & hopefully dense in good reasonably protected habitat. No, those are both ma...
- February 19th, 2013, 12:10 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Meanwhile, across the pond, at 53 degres latitude N....
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4559
Re: Meanwhile, across the pond, at 53 degres latitude N....
Probably warmer than today at 31 degrees N in Louisiana, didn't quite hit 20 C, but then I'm 2 degrees north of Mt. Everest. When I lived in the Intermountain West (northern Arizona to Montana) the snakes would vanish, regardless of temperatures, in mid-October, and reappear only in late April. A s...
- February 18th, 2013, 10:30 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Meanwhile, across the pond, at 53 degres latitude N....
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4559
Re: Meanwhile, across the pond, at 53 degres latitude N....
On Anglesey - and no, I have only seen Coronella once in the wild, and that was in Croatia 29 years ago....Ruxs wrote:Great find, mate.
May I ask where in North Wales this is? Also, have you ever seen coronella austriaca in the UK?
- February 17th, 2013, 11:14 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Meanwhile, across the pond, at 53 degres latitude N....
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4559
Meanwhile, across the pond, at 53 degres latitude N....
..... same latitude as the Labrador Coast or the southern end of Hudson's Bay:
First North Wales Vipera berus of the season.
First North Wales Vipera berus of the season.