NFR Got any Herp pictures?

[clarkman]

Cascade Frog in Redwood National Park


NW Gartersnake (presumably, I didn't do any scale counts) on a Metolius River path


Southern Alligator Lizard from the Deschutes. I tried to get a better angle, but he would have none of it!


I really like these Alligator Lizards. They can get pretty large (for a lizard in the PNW), are relatively easy to catch (should one feel so inclined), but bite very hard (which is why I rarely feel inclined to catch them).

 

[krusty]

Bellevue Ankle Bitin' lizard.

 

[Shad]

Florida...

Reptiles are cool... as long as you see them before you get too close.

 

[Northern]

Random shots from over the years:

One of the aforementioned rough skinned newts, small Hood Canal area lake


Teeny tiny turtle, from @Zak's home lake


Outhouse occupant, Seeps lake


My biologist daughter and friend on a herp field trip, central Cali desert

Same daughter, different field trip


Unalived frog, bass gullet, Seeps lake


Woodland Park Zoo Komodo dragon giving me the hairy eyeball. Chilling, even through glass!

 

[RRSmith]

I came across this prairie rattlesnake while poking around an old farmstead in the Oklahoma Panhandle.

 

[doublespey]

A northern Pacific Rattlesnake along the Deschutes enjoying a warm roadway at dusk last Thursday.

 

[Matt B]

Box tortoise in the morning. Probably a female who had laid her eggs during the night, heading back down the gully.

 

[PhilR]

I don’t care for snakes, but I fish with a guy who does.

 

[clarkman]

I don’t care for snakes, but I fish with a guy who does.


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that guy could be a hand model

 

[Travis Bille]

Nice little California Mountain Kingsnake that my daughter discovered in her moms backyard

 

[Rob Allen]

No picture but today I saw a unique rattler just above the cable crossing at Moody on the east bank. Front half was a mottled yellow and the back half was black. He was very lazily crossing the trail he buzzed me from 12'8" away.

 

[Flymph]

I will not sleep for the rest of the month!

 

[Greg Armstrong]

Crawled out from an Edmonds area pond a few days ago…

 

[SteelHeadDave]

 

[tkww]

Backpacking a few years ago and ran across this mass of frogs in a little meadow


Idaho panhandle has a lot of these


The snake never was able to get the sculpin down because of the dorsal fin.


A particular rafting trip I've done several times usually involves an encounter. Last year this one came wandering into camp one evening, eventually passing through to get down into the rocks next to the river.


I looked for the rattler to emerge the next morning, but instead three garters came out from under what appeared to be the same rock. I've since learned scientists now believe it is not uncommon for them to form social groups.


I did run into a blue-tailed skink in my back yard this year, but wasn't able to get a pic.

 

[mcswny]

Hard to tell, but small snake eating a small frog.

 

[Brian in OR.]

Juvenile tiger whiptail

 

[Kenneth Yong]

I go to Malaysia practically every year, and as you can imagine, I was bound to see a few herps visiting one of the world's megadiverse countries with more than 550 species of reptiles and 240 species of amphibians.

Here are a few highlights:

Saltwater Crocodile (Crocodylus porosus). Floating down a river in Borneo, must've seen more than 20, stopped counting after a while. This was one of the biggest. You would think the regular sight of something like this would stop anyone from swimming in the river. You would be wrong.

My 8-year old kid goes, "Look, there's a snake!" and I'm like, "Where??!!"

"Ohhhhhh, there!" (Almost dead center in the photo above). A Bornean Keeled Pit Viper (Tropidolaemus subannulatus).

This Wagler's Pit Viper (Tropidolaemus wagleri), closely related to the Bornean Keeled PV above, was almost a backyard animal, saw it about a hundred yards from my parents' home. BTW, Asian pit vipers are related to your rattlesnakes, they all have these heat sensing pits between their eyes and nostrils that make them really effective hunters in the dark. These two pit viper species are unusual in that their venom is mainly neurotoxic -- viper venom is usually mainly hemotoxic.

And here's a Mangrove Pit Viper (Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus). They're pretty sedentary, so once you see one, you know that you'll find it more or less in the same area the next time you go by. Their venom is a powerful hemotoxin, and they have a reputation among locals for being irritable, so approach with caution!

My favorite gekko, the Tokay (Gekko gekko), one of the world's largest, reaching 15 inches in length. You hear it way more than you see it. When you do see it, on the side of a wall, for example, it's like, "Woah, that's big!" Not venomous, but aggressive when handled and has a strong bite that will draw blood.

Going underwater, found a Yellow-lipped Sea Krait (Laticauda colubrina). Related to the cobras, its neurotoxin is pretty potent, but it's not an aggressive snake -- this one was rather curious and actually followed me for a few seconds, always at a safe distance.

One of my favorite photos of a turtle. This is a plain tuckered out Green (Chelonia mydas).

Thanks for looking,
Kenneth

 

[Scott Salzer]

Wonderful, thanks for sharing.

 

[Old406Kid]

This little guy narrowly missed being run over by my mower last week.

I'm no expert but am guessing that it's a Western Skink. We recently had a bigger one on our front porch but this one was only a couple of inches long so probably a juvenile. The vividness of the neon blue tail is amazing.