regalringneck wrote:
... you guys give me a good chuckle / thnx /
jimi/lat/jonathan et al. ... please ... dont be chumps ... give it a rest & take a breath ... a really slow deep breath ... there now much better ... exhale it ... & let the brain burn just a wisp of glucose ... i find it works better that way.
There will be a bogie fd. our master hoaxster will treat you & science well ... in fact i recommend & predict a bogie in an elephant tree constricting a grey vireo (spend a minute & research those two) ... The captured boogieman- ..errr bogiesnake should have a 1/2 digested pipistrel in its gut & a fresh deermouse if it's done right.... & trust me ... he will do it right & cross his ayes and wear his best tees ...
The best dad (fundad) will be sold ... as will the editors of herp review ... the maim n squish will immediately promulgate a flood of new proscriptions /prescriptions & most importantly... prohibitions ( on ewe) ... the prohibitionista band (punks mostly) will play raucously like a mob of ravens... tire & finally go off to feast on the fresh roadkill ...
I know most if not all of you will mutter a wtf is he saying & keep on flipping (but please put the rock back beesh)... & never answer ... never mind ask (axe) the ? ...
Why none on hwy 2, nor @ guadalupe after hunsaker (who ... do i understand had grismer (the original gangsta prohibitionista) in attendance with him ?) & none on san felipe pass nor san matias ... despite hundreds of vehicle passages ... heheh now i know this is heavy on your ADD brains ... so i apologize in advance ...
Oh please purge the thought ... & wt-heck ... possibly your survey might sow the seed for a new book ; may i suggest " the rattys amongst us" ?
Klauber & Shaw would be ashamed of your naivete & willful ignorance.
Looking for what you want to find is a recipe for deceit ... hint : dont partake.
& if you must go ..go to guadalupe & go in march as hunsaker reportedly did.
... heh heh ...
Your's always trying to help ... & trying to fly "VFR" thru the fog & to ask the proper ?'s Like why has the DNA of the I-8 hoax never been analyzed in comparison to cabo & captive bogies ? I guess nobody has any interest in what they already have concluded eh? heh heh ... rxr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuLhlrq-92wJohn, I'm confused. In the previous thread it was proven that several of your claims regarding Bogie range in northern Baja were incorrect, which you admitted and followed up with:
regalringneck wrote:
Thnx for posting the link YoloH, As i read the part about the 2'nd sighting, i realized i've actually read this pub. previously... gettn ode is el eh !
So w/ that Hunsaker voucher clarified, I will acknowlege I am wrong, (WRONG), & fold my position, & concede that henceforth I must grudgingly presume the I-8 specimen legitimate, as the habitat is so very similar & continuous. My previous faith in Grismer's excellent work fully restored.
Pity the E-databases are so inaccurate, I promise i will not rely upon them so heavily again.
John Gunn
You might have been joking, but most of your objections here were already dealt with in that thread, including a photo-vouchered specimen from one of the Mexican locales you claim had no sightings and word-of-mouth reports from the others.
http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/vie ... &start=150Herping rarely-herped areas in fun, and I plan to be in that exact area anyway next year at the exact right time....what exactly are the drawbacks? As far as I know my integrity with regards to herp finds is beyond reproach, and I haven't heard anyone cast the slightest aspersions on Jeff either, and if we go we will be searching with a 3rd party who is a professional wildlife surveyor as well as potentially a Border Patrol escort...what exactly are you scared of?
I've been lucky enough to find two country records in my life, as well as locating three other species for whom the country records had not yet been published (but for which the other finds happened to have occurred before mine), and the team I was working with found six other country records during our search. One of the country records was a 700km range extension from the previous closest known range, though it appears to be naturally occurring and the gap will likely be filled once our publication reveals the secret that was keeping them obscured. These were all outside of the USA, of course, but word of mouth suggests that there could be at least two country records which have been found on the Arizona border and not yet been published. The idea that rat snakes could range 30 miles from their confirmed Baja range into California isn't the strangest thing in the world, and no one is hurt if we look.