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- June 15th, 2012, 12:59 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Tribute to an amazing beetle collector
- Replies: 1
- Views: 765
Tribute to an amazing beetle collector
Karl was an entomologist, not a herper, but I think we can all learn something from this man. As you know, the US is a mostly temperate country. It is high in biological diversity because of its size and varied geography, but it pales in comparison to the tropics - as does everywhere outside the tro...
- June 15th, 2012, 10:23 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Belize ID request?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3888
Re: Belize ID request?
Señor Cascabel,
I'm cool with it!
Thanks everyone for all your wonderful help!
Warren
I'm cool with it!
Thanks everyone for all your wonderful help!
Warren
- June 14th, 2012, 11:22 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Belize ID request?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3888
Re: Belize ID request?
Thanks for the info so far, guys!
After looking here, I'm pretty sure Turtle 3 is a Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas).
Assuming everyone is correct, we're still looking for Lizard 9, and Frogs 1,3,4,5.
After looking here, I'm pretty sure Turtle 3 is a Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas).
Assuming everyone is correct, we're still looking for Lizard 9, and Frogs 1,3,4,5.
- June 13th, 2012, 11:41 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Belize ID request?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3888
Belize ID request?
Some pics from my friend's trip to Belize, posted for ID. Love the knowledge on the forum! Some of them seem obvious, but sometimes I think I know it and then the crowdsourcing reveals it to be something close, but slightly different. Plus you never know when a regional variant of something has been...
- June 9th, 2012, 10:18 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Three Bornean Short Pythons in two hours
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2749
- June 9th, 2012, 9:30 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Three Bornean Short Pythons in two hours
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2749
Re: Three Bornean Short Pythons in two hours
Congrats! Is it possible that retics are not spending as much time on the ground?
- May 29th, 2012, 10:44 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Dispatches #40: Another Bornean Short Python...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4620
Re: Borneo Dispatches #40: Another Bornean Short Python...
Sehr geehrter Herr Breuer,
Ich betreibe ein kleines handelsunternehmen in Deutschland. Wir bieten chinesische markt für aphrodisiaka rund um die welt. Als deutscher bruder, bitte senden sie mir eine nachricht mit genauen koordinaten gefunden wo man die schlange.
Herzlichen Dank,
Warren
Ich betreibe ein kleines handelsunternehmen in Deutschland. Wir bieten chinesische markt für aphrodisiaka rund um die welt. Als deutscher bruder, bitte senden sie mir eine nachricht mit genauen koordinaten gefunden wo man die schlange.
Herzlichen Dank,
Warren
- May 26th, 2012, 5:05 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Dispatches #39: Invertebralooza!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3678
Re: Borneo Dispatches #39: Invertebralooza!
Love it! Thank you so much
- May 24th, 2012, 10:10 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: African Clawed frogs anyone?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1092
Re: African Clawed frogs anyone?
It is my understanding that the "no locations" rule is for areas where herpers are abundant (mainly SoFla and SoCal). In these areas, posting a good location can mean that the habitat is destroyed in a couple of days through both commercial and recreational herping. In other areas like Sot...
- May 22nd, 2012, 12:19 pm
- Forum: Invertebrate Forum
- Topic: Hummingbird Moth
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2564
Re: Hummingbird Moth
Thanks for posting!
- May 14th, 2012, 10:47 pm
- Forum: Invertebrate Forum
- Topic: Love and Death
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1698
Re: Love and Death
Great shots! Thanks for posting.
- March 27th, 2012, 10:27 pm
- Forum: Invertebrate Forum
- Topic: ID? Strange!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1351
Re: ID? Strange!
I think a while back we had another post about an unknown larva and I think Gordon was correct about calling it a soldier fly back then, too.
Does anyone else remember this? (inside voice, inside voice)
Does anyone else remember this? (inside voice, inside voice)
- March 27th, 2012, 10:25 pm
- Forum: Invertebrate Forum
- Topic: Callisoga Spider
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2127
Re: Callisoga Spider
20 minutes?! Why didn't you give up after one minute? How did you know somebody was home? Could you see the spider's legs or something?
- March 27th, 2012, 12:50 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: How to photograph wild retics - HELP PLEASE!!!!
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3938
Re: How to photograph wild retics - HELP PLEASE!!!!
I suggest you start ranting about Malaysian politics. It will either fall asleep or literally explode with fury. Either way - neat photos.
- March 24th, 2012, 10:51 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Dispatches #11: Sixteen-Foot Reticulated Python
- Replies: 46
- Views: 21112
Re: Borneo Dispatches #11: Sixteen-Foot Reticulated Python
I believe submerging does help them shed.Hans Breuer (twoton) wrote:David told me about snakes he had seen submerged in water to get rid of ticks.
http://is.gd/W5WMn5
- March 24th, 2012, 10:48 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: Northern right whales
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3236
Re: Northern right whales
That sounds pretty awesome! Thanks for posting.
- March 22nd, 2012, 3:17 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Hello! - New to the forums, not to herping.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1552
Re: Hello! - New to the forums, not to herping.
There is another pitcher plant lover here: Dr. Hans Breuer.
- March 22nd, 2012, 4:40 am
- Forum: Invertebrate Forum
- Topic: What inverts have you eaten?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3010
Re: What inverts have you eaten?
I don't wanna talk about eating herps because the forum members might hunt me down and protest on my lawn or something, but bugs ... I once ate a large black cricket. It was very disgusting. I am talking about the taste, not the texture.
- March 21st, 2012, 1:29 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Apple Stock hits a "Striking Rattlesnake" pose on the charts
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1127
Re: Apple Stock hits a "Striking Rattlesnake" pose on the ch
Yup, it's like a slow-motion train wreck
- March 21st, 2012, 1:27 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: 16th,March,2012
- Replies: 3
- Views: 951
Re: 16th,March,2012
Thanks for posting, Jerry!
- March 15th, 2012, 3:24 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Sometimes I can't help myself....
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2986
Re: Sometimes I can't help myself....
People have an emotional feeling about snakes. You cannot resolve an emotional issue by providing facts. This is complicated by the fact that some snakes are dangerous, and the fact that primates have an instinctive predisposition to fear snakes. This predisposition can be easily overridden through ...
- March 13th, 2012, 10:25 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: Sulawesi 2009
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6857
Re: Sulawesi 2009
Hi Curtis,
Amazing animals. Such an exotic location, with such gruelling travelling to get there, that I don't know what to say.
I'm glad you went, but I'm not sure I would enjoy it.
I could be alone on this, but that may be why you haven't gotten many comments on such an amazing post.
Amazing animals. Such an exotic location, with such gruelling travelling to get there, that I don't know what to say.
I'm glad you went, but I'm not sure I would enjoy it.
I could be alone on this, but that may be why you haven't gotten many comments on such an amazing post.
- March 10th, 2012, 7:11 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
- Replies: 90
- Views: 97863
Re: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
Yeah, I"ve eaten porcupine and (armadillo). Porcupines are pretty good. It's a good animal for people lost in the woods to eat: easy to find (in some places), easy to catch, and easy to kill. I will tell three porcupine stories. The first is that I was playing with a baby and I got some quills ...
- March 7th, 2012, 6:13 pm
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: Flying squirrels: How to find?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 16381
Re: Flying squirrels: How to find?
Pretty interesting conversation!
Just want to say I'm really enjoying the mammal forum, and thank you to everyone who has posted!
Just want to say I'm really enjoying the mammal forum, and thank you to everyone who has posted!
- March 7th, 2012, 3:01 pm
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: How to find mustelids...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6004
Re: How to find mustelids...
To me, it seems like otters are curious and confident and will check you out. Mink are not as curious but they don't really give a f#%k, so if you are in their habitat, they will let you see them. Skunks are pretty confident for obvious reasons, so it is a matter of learning their activity patterns....
- March 6th, 2012, 9:49 pm
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: 3 trips to Alaska
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5614
Re: 3 trips to Alaska
Actually never got my hands on one, and have only seen one once - in Wyoming.
Although I live in a province that is full of them, I prefer the tropics.
Just looked them up and learned a couple of facts:
Although I live in a province that is full of them, I prefer the tropics.
Just looked them up and learned a couple of facts:
- 1. They are basically a rat-shaped rabbit
- 2. There's 30 different kinds!
- March 4th, 2012, 12:28 pm
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
- Replies: 90
- Views: 97863
Re: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
Sorry for the ageism, Dell!
Your entertaining comments are keeping this thread alive!
Your entertaining comments are keeping this thread alive!
- March 4th, 2012, 10:39 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: 3 trips to Alaska
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5614
Re: 3 trips to Alaska
Hi Curtis,
Thanks for the fantastic post!
Your adventures continue to amaze and inspire me.
Do you like radio collars?
Thanks for the fantastic post!
Your adventures continue to amaze and inspire me.
Do you like radio collars?
- March 3rd, 2012, 11:44 pm
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
- Replies: 90
- Views: 97863
Re: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
@Dell: I didn't remember Ernest T, so I had to look it up. Thanks for the compliment! I remember one time with my friend when we were on a steep hill beside a lake. There were two ducks in the water about 30 feet away. I picked up a huge rock and asked him if he thought I could hit them (I was askin...
- March 3rd, 2012, 9:08 pm
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
- Replies: 90
- Views: 97863
Re: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
Hunting is kind of frowned upon in the east, for a few reasons: 1. Animal rights 2. Most of the population is urbanized and can't hunt. In this situation (urbanization) you get a mental separation between "meat" and "animals." Meat comes from the grocery store. No one would think...
- March 3rd, 2012, 1:57 am
- Forum: Bird Forum
- Topic: The Jewel Hunter - The Great Pitta Quest
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2850
Re: The Jewel Hunter - The Great Pitta Quest
I don't get birding. This seems like a great book, but to me it's like a quest to go to the greatest restaurants in the world and smell all their food without tasting it. Nothing wrong with that - it just ain't for me.
- March 2nd, 2012, 10:37 pm
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
- Replies: 90
- Views: 97863
Re: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
Raccoon. I have eaten A LOT of raccoons. Once we sprayed the bbq grill with lemon pledge to clean it ... then the coon tasted lemony. I called it lemon coon - a Chinese recipe like lemon chicken. Another time I climbed a tree after a coon. I shot it above me, and it hit me on the way down. One inter...
- March 2nd, 2012, 12:37 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Dispatches #27: Big Borneo Photo Dump
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3163
Re: Borneo Dispatches #27: Big Borneo Photo Dump
Great post! Gives the flavour of Kuching.
Much better than the flavour of Vietnam, which is oddly fishy.
Much better than the flavour of Vietnam, which is oddly fishy.
- March 1st, 2012, 5:44 pm
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
- Replies: 90
- Views: 97863
Re: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
Not sure why the muskrats ate your plastic, but another rodent, the porcupine, will eat anything with salt in it (plywood (the glue), etc.). Salt is usually rare in nature (away from the ocean) and many animals will chew anything that tastes salty (mineral deposits, etc.). We would be more aware of ...
- March 1st, 2012, 10:54 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: Otters in River, Lake, Shore and Sea
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4044
Re: Otters in River, Lake, Shore and Sea
Very cool!!!
- February 29th, 2012, 11:51 pm
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
- Replies: 90
- Views: 97863
Re: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
I'll go with one of the biggest squirrels in the world: the groundhog. At 13 I was not a hunter. Groundhogs were chewing up my dad's vegetable patch, so I begged him to buy me a livetrap and I caught the critter. I wasn't allowed to use the gun, so I slipped a snare noose through the bars and hung i...
- February 28th, 2012, 11:15 pm
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
- Replies: 90
- Views: 97863
Re: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
Can't remember any exciting ones at the moment, so I'll just go with Red Squirrel.
They're bitter; probably my least-favourite squirrel to eat.
They're bitter; probably my least-favourite squirrel to eat.
- February 28th, 2012, 8:21 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
- Replies: 90
- Views: 97863
Re: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
Interesting, Dell! Never heard of farming beavers. What did he feed them?
- February 27th, 2012, 11:22 pm
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
- Replies: 90
- Views: 97863
Re: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
Beaver. Every time someone says beaver is delicious, I think "it really is!" My folks have a pond in Ontario and the young male beavers used to come down the river looking for a new home. They would take down several trees overnight. So the best thing (for us) was to shoot them and eat the...
- February 27th, 2012, 8:51 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
- Replies: 90
- Views: 97863
Re: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
@mikemike: I'm jealous. Met lots of guys in Australia who grew up hunting pigs. A big dog covered in body armour would hamstring the pig, and then the boy would cut the pig's throat with a big knife. Sounded dangerous and exciting!
- February 27th, 2012, 8:45 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: OT - The great mammal thread!
- Replies: 149
- Views: 39468
Re: OT - The great mammal thread!
I hope Warren doesn't see this, he'll want to eat one, if he hasn't already. I think I did eat one, but I can't remember, as I may have blocked out the traumatic memory. Constantly eating, vicious, stinky, venomous, echolocating little MFers ... that huge brain doesn't stop them from getting killed...
- February 26th, 2012, 11:19 pm
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
- Replies: 90
- Views: 97863
Re: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
Muskrat ... don't have a great story, just shot it and ate it. Always enjoy seeing them living in ditches along major highways.
Not sure about their vision, but they often swim right at you and only seem to notice you at the last minute. Cute little magoos.
Not sure about their vision, but they often swim right at you and only seem to notice you at the last minute. Cute little magoos.
- February 26th, 2012, 2:40 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Name That Snake!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1972
Re: Name That Snake!
Yup! Cicindeline larvae do this too. Rolling behaviour is probably more widespread than we realize. As part of my "research," I throw every animal I see down a hill and document what happens.So "hoop" snakes do exist?
- February 26th, 2012, 11:35 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: Flying squirrels: How to find?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 16381
Re: Flying squirrels: How to find?
I have caught Northerns in a live trap with peanut butter. It is pretty cool opening the door and seeing them fly away!
- February 25th, 2012, 11:04 pm
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
- Replies: 90
- Views: 97863
Re: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
Red Fox: Helped out on a trapline and decided to try the meat. Wore latex gloves for skinning, nicked myself through the gloves, freaked out about rabies, but I'm still here.
- February 25th, 2012, 3:29 pm
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
- Replies: 90
- Views: 97863
Re: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
Did you go to Quebec just to go hunting? Is it better than Ohio?
- February 24th, 2012, 11:52 pm
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
- Replies: 90
- Views: 97863
Re: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
Deer Mouse. In the film Never Cry Wolf, the Farley Mowat character survives by eating mice in his shack. I had to try it!
- February 23rd, 2012, 11:49 pm
- Forum: Invertebrate Forum
- Topic: New Species of Jerusalem Cricket
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1964
Re: New Species of Jerusalem Cricket
Does anyone know of where I can get some more info on this recently described species? Not sure what species they called it, but as of 2006, "recent work has revealed greater species diversity within the group than had been previously described, with 40–50 putative [supposed] species occurring...
- February 23rd, 2012, 11:11 pm
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
- Replies: 90
- Views: 97863
Re: What mammals have you eaten? (ONE MAMMAL PER DAY)
It's after midnight here in Mountain Time, so I can post another mammal!
Striped Skunk via car hunting. Stinky, but delicious.
I guess if you could shoot or trap it without it spraying, you could eliminate the smell, but 3000 lb of steel ain't exactly a precision instrument.
Striped Skunk via car hunting. Stinky, but delicious.
I guess if you could shoot or trap it without it spraying, you could eliminate the smell, but 3000 lb of steel ain't exactly a precision instrument.
- February 23rd, 2012, 6:29 pm
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: Look at those mams. . .
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7845
Re: Look at those mams. . .
This eating thread has momentum, so I started a new topic: http://is.gd/D07p74